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"There was a woman in our aft-scuppers when I went a-whalin in the little 'Grampus' and Lord love you, Pumpo, you poor land-swab, she WAS as pretty a craft as ever dowsed a tarpauling there was a woman on board the 'Grampus, who before we'd struck our first fish, or biled our first blubber, set the whole crew in a mutiny.
"I can follow the talk of a Pawnee," he said, "or wag my jaw, if so be necessity bids me to speak, by a Sioux's council-fire and I can patter Canadian French with the hunters who come for peltries to Nachitoches or Thichimuchimachy; but from the tongue of a Frenchwoman, with white flour on her head, and war-paint on her face, the Lord deliver poor Natty Pumpo." "Amen and amen!" said Tom Coxswain.
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