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Updated: June 15, 2025
One day, after a slight engagement between my men and the natives, we got ready at sunset to sail, without noticing the absence of a young roustabout who, either through carelessness, or because he had not heard the call to assemble, must have advanced too far on the mountain.
The roustabout apparently belonged to the conch tribe of which Milo had spoken. Thin. undersized. swarthy. with features that showed a trace of negro and perhaps of Indian blood as well, he had a furtive manner and seemed to cringe away from the Northerner as they set off across the clearing. toward the distant huts and still more distant orchards. He was bareheaded and stoop-shouldered.
One was in the kitchen, where a half-breed woman was giving supper to Li Choo, a faithful Chinaman roustabout; the other was in the room where a young wife sat with hands clasped, wondering why her husband did not return, yet glad that he did not.
The Dowager was skipper of the Thompson craft, with "My daughter" that's what her ma always called her as first mate, and Milo as general roustabout and purser. 'Twould have done you good to see the fleet run into the breakfast room of a morning, with the Dowager leading, under full sail, Barbara close up to her starboard quarter, and Milo tailing out a couple of lengths astern.
His common problem was to get such income and comfort as he might from a parcel of the general run; and the creation of roustabout energy among them would require such vigor and such iron resolution on his own part as was forthcoming in extremely few cases.
They searched everywhere; kicked in the state-room doors, turned everything upside down, and raised h l generally. If they could have caught me then, it would have been good bye George. They came down on deck, walked past, and inquired of a roustabout who stood by me if he had seen a well-dressed man on deck. He told them "he had not seen any gemman down on deck afore they came down."
A roustabout on the deck declared that in the glare of the steamer's search-light, thrown over the murky waters, he was seen to come to the surface once, but if he rose a second time it must have been beneath the great bulk of the packet, to go down again to the death awaiting him in the deeps.
That's the kind of a worthless good-for-nothing person you are, and I want to call you my friend! Hello, now what is the matter?" The matter was that the roustabout was crying softly like a baby. Bart was infinitely touched. "I don't know your secrets," continued Bart earnestly, "and I certainly shall not pry into them without your permission, but I want to repay your kindness in some way.
It is said that in the midst of the column of water were seen fragments of steel and wood, and oil also was reported on the water. This meant that at least one submarine had paid the supreme price for the spread of kultur on the high seas." As in all thrilling incidents of the sort, there was a note of comedy. It was supplied by a negro roustabout on one of the large transports.
A sailor had come into the forecastle with an extra blanket for Sandy, contributed from the hunters' mess. "That's all right, Sandy," said Rainey. "Better try to get some sleep." The roustabout had already dropped off. The seaman touched his temple in an old-fashioned salute. "That was a smart job you did, sir," he said to Rainey. The latter went aft with Lund through the hunters' quarters.
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