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They don't speak, I've noticed." "No, they don't. But that Chink's little ways are apt to be indirect. She's afraid of him afraid of the dust under her feet, as you might say." Stires puffed meditatively at his pipe. Then a piratical-looking customer intervened, and I left. Leisurely, all this, and not significant to the unpeeled eye.
At the same moment a dapper young fellow in the uniform of a British midshipman sprang into the main-rigging, speaking-trumpet in hand, and hailed us somewhat in the following fashion, "Cutter ahoy! who are you, and whither bound? and what is that piratical-looking craft down to leeward?
A rough piratical-looking man, in a naval uniform, stepped forward, sword in hand, and presenting the hilt with an air which none but a Frenchman could assume, said "Monsieur, the fortune of war places us in your power; we yield ourselves prisoners, and claim your clemency." "On what ground do you claim that?
The piratical-looking craft, perceiving we took no notice of her hint to heave to, yawed off a couple of points and sent a messenger after us in the shape of a twenty-four pound shot, which struck the water a short distance astern, and, playfully skipping along, sank beneath the surface near the weather quarter. Captain Moncrieff said not a word, but looked amazingly sober.
He was doing his best on this particular morning, and under his influence, so brightening everything, two little boys and a little jackass were having a good time near a long, low, rakish, but far from piratical-looking house upon the hillside already mentioned. One of the boys was white, one of the boys was brown, and the little jackass was gray.
While they were struggling, the doctor borne partially to the earth but yet struggling, suddenly his antagonist released his hold, and staggered back a few paces. "There, you swab take that; I am yard-arm and yard-arm with you, you piratical-looking craft you lubberly, buccaneering son of a fish-fag."
As to the men appearing piratical-looking fellows to this boy, I don't wonder at that; most men are wild enough when their blood is up. Some of my own men are as savage to look at as one would desire. But I gave strict orders this morning, that only a few were to go ashore, and these were to keep well out of sight of the settlement of the savages. Doubtless, they are all aboard by this time.
This piratical-looking boatman promptly took Blake several miles down the coast, parleyed in the lingua Franca of the Mediterranean, argued in broken English, and insisted on going further. Blake, scenting imposture, demanded to be put ashore. This the boatman refused to do.
Nippers, the second on my list, was a whiskered, sallow, and, upon the whole, rather piratical-looking young man, of about five and twenty. I always deemed him the victim of two evil powers ambition and indigestion.
Here we stand and view the crowds of shipping, from the magnificent Orient liner, to the saucy, piratical-looking, Sicilian fruit felucca; the latter closely packed, with their sterns to the wharves, their enormous sails and masts telling of many a speedy voyage made, and their swarthy red-capped crews having much the appearance of what we suppose pirates might be, if piracy were now a paying instead of a dangerous game.
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