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Updated: May 8, 2025

They were making straight for the longboat, and Davy said, "They will go away in her and leave us here in the lurch." But the captain said, "I think not." He was right. The Kanakas brought back the boat within hail of the schooner, and after being assured by the captain that he would not ropes-end them, they climbed aboard. On returning to Hobarton Captain Taylor was seized with the gold fever.

George Dunderdale - The Book of the Bush: Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial: Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others: Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned

But Captain Tugg assured me that in the fifteen years he had been in this country he had never been obliged to more than string a few savages up by their thumbs and ropes-end them! "They've been ugly at times not my boys around here, but some of the far, up-country tribes and I've been obliged to show them things. I'm kind of a wonder-worker, I be.

W. Bert (Walter Bertram) Foster - Swept Out to Sea : Or, Clint Webb Among the Whalers