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Updated: May 12, 2025
They moved about the front rooms, filled with trophies from the deep, a Nantucketer's treasures bits of pottery from China, weavings from the Indies, lacquers from Japan over all, spicy reminders of far archipelagoes, and the clean fragrance of cedar. On the mantel in the parlor stood a full-rigged ship, a whaling-ship, with her trying-house and small-boats a full ship, homeward bound....
On the following morning at ten o'clock, we returned to the Clara Bell in one of the latter's small-boats, and the corvette steamed slowly out to sea, her officers waving their hats from the quarter-deck in mute farewell, and her band playing the Pirate's Chorus "Ever be happy and blest as thou art" as if in mockery of our lonely, cheerless exile!
That shimmering molten sea, the island catching the reflected lights and making its own pictures of them; the distant forests, whose trees lifted fiery branches and leaves of flame; the mist-clouds raining blood and gold, the burning steamer, the great arena of fire-flecked sea and the small-boats swimming upon it what more of delight or devilry could Ken's Island give this vulture of the deep?
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