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Updated: May 14, 2025
The fish are skate, sole, pollack, red mullet, shad, eels, pargos, sardines, and others; for which natives fish with a three-pronged dart, with thread of a fibrous plant, with nets in a bow shape, and at night with a light. Our people fished with hooks and with nets for the most part. In swampy parts of the beach shrimps and mussels were seen.
"I believe he will." "George," he said, "if you pull this thing off Once or twice before you've stepped in with that sort of Woosh of yours " He left the sentence unfinished. "Give me that note-book," I said, "and tell me all you know. Where's the ship? Where's Pollack? And where's that telegram from? If that quap's to be got, I'll get it or bust.
"Come in," I said, and a black voluble figure I could just see obscurely came in to talk in my private ear and fill my cabin with its whisperings and gestures. It was the captain. He, too, had been awake and thinking things over. He had come to explain enormously. I lay there hating him and wondering if I and Pollack could lock him in his cabin and run the ship without him.
Next day for all the morning I resisted the impulse to go to him, and played nap with Pollack with my secret gnawing at me, and in the evening started to go and was near benighted. I never told a soul of them of this thing I had done. Next day I went early, and he had gone, and there were human footmarks and ugly stains round the muddy hole from which he had been dragged.
What about bacon and eggs, and some tins of cocoa and milk, and a cake and some sardines " "Wonk," interrupted the caterer, "we're only going to have tea ashore. We aren't going to camp out for the week-end." "I tell you what," said Mouldy Jake's patron, "I'll bring my line and we'll catch pollack and fry them for tea too."
They lowered nets and wicker pots through the heaving floor deep into the twilight, and, groping across their remembered fields, drew pollack and conger, shellfish and whiting from rocks where shepherds had sat to watch their sheep, or tinners gathered at noonday for talk and dinner.
They learnt that the prestige of the British arms had been restored by Pollack, and that the campaign was ended. To Burton, who had counted on being sent to the front, this was a burning disappointment.
For like religious reasons, another feature of the etiquette of the modern fashionable table had been anticipated by many centuries the eaters washed their hands in a little bowl of water after their meal. The Pollack was thus kept by main religious force in touch with a liquid with which he had no external sympathy.
No: us han't failed so low yet as to mind anything the constable says. "'Then the whole affair is as much a mystery as ever? "'Now, look 'ee here; I don't want to tell nothin' more about it. A still tongue makes a wise head; an' there's a pollack on the end of your line. "The wind stuck in the north-west, and day after day the regal summer weather continued.
I was cold all the time until after we passed Cape Verde, then I became steamily hot; I had been too preoccupied with Beatrice and my keen desire to get the Maud Mary under way at once, to consider a proper wardrobe for myself, and in particular I lacked a coat. Heavens! how I lacked that coat! And, moreover, I was cooped up with two of the worst bores in Christendom, Pollack and the captain.
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