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Updated: May 8, 2025
As they looked, the hinder part of the body fell with a thud against the tree-trunk, and began to ripple up. "Back," said Compton, "to the next tree." They darted to the vine-bridge, swung over, then stopped to see if the snake would follow. "The monkey-rope would never bear its weight," said Venning. "Can you hear it? By Jove, I feel all of a jump.
Just so, from the ship's steep side, did I hold Queequeg down there in the sea, by what is technically called in the fishery a monkey-rope, attached to a strong strip of canvas belted round his waist. It was a humorously perilous business for both of us.
Arrived, apparently, at our destination, we were set down, and immediately bound with llianos or monkey-rope to the bole of a huge tree.
If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die. True, you may say that, by exceeding caution, you may possibly escape these and the multitudinous other evil chances of life. But handle Queequeg's monkey-rope heedfully as I would, sometimes he jerked it so, that I came very near sliding overboard.
Just so, from the ship's steep side, did I hold Queequeg down there in the sea, by what is technically called in the fishery a monkey-rope, attached to a strong strip of canvas belted round his waist. It was a humorously perilous business for both of us.
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