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Phileas Fogg hailed a boat, got into it, and soon found himself on board the Henrietta, iron-hulled, wood-built above. He ascended to the deck, and asked for the captain, who forthwith presented himself. He was a man of fifty, a sort of sea-wolf, with big eyes, a complexion of oxidised copper, red hair and thick neck, and a growling voice. "The captain?" asked Mr. Fogg. "I am the captain."
But stopping, he added: "I forgot that I have but one hand left. I cannot climb." The face of the young woman saddened as she replied: "You are suffering, Albinik? Alas, you, thus mutilated!" "Is the sea-wolf caught without a lure?" "No." "Let the fishing be good," answered Albinik, "and I shall not regret having given my hand for bait."
As to his moral character, that they could afford to discount, and as to the question of his faithfulness or the reverse, it was pointed out with irresistible logic by Ibrahim, that never before had the Sea-wolf had such glorious opportunities of plunder as now, when he could count ten ships for every one that had followed in his wake before.
He checked. Out of the church at that moment, grand air and all, sauntered Peter Blood. With him came a tough, long-legged French sea-wolf named Yberville, who, though still young, had already won fame as a privateer commander before the loss of his own ship had driven him to take service under Blood.
The Sea-Wolf has a tremendous appetite, and his huge jaws, armed each with six rows of teeth, can easily crush the toughest shell-fish, of which food he is very fond. They are often to be seen over seven feet long, and being desperate fighters they are almost as much dreaded as the Sword-Fish." With these, and many other stories of the fish world the Pilot beguiled the tedium of the journey.
The grampus, or sea-wolf, was another article of food which bears testimony to the coarse palate of the early Englishman, and at the same time may afford a clue to the partiality for disguising condiments and spices.
And her kiss was like that of the spy an absorbing kiss throughout his entire person, making him awake.... Upon opening his eyes he saw Freya with her mouth close to his. "Arise, my sea-wolf!... It is already night. We are going to dine." Outside the house, Ulysses would breathe in the twilight breeze and look at the first stars that were beginning to sparkle above the roofs.
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