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And I could believe that later when, after sailing some miles up the inlet, we came to the burned ruins of a collection of huts and sheds. This was Tugg's headquarters, and his partner, Professor Vose, the man I had come so far to see, was not there. The attack on the encampment of the animal trappers had evidently been made several days before. The fire had devastated the place.
Captain Tugg's eye glistened when he saw the proportions of that whale closer to. He stood up, looked long towards the inlet where there seemed to be some movement among the craft anchored there, and then ordered us to row in close to the whale's tail. He passed a hawser around the narrow part of the whale just forward of the tail and then ordered the men to pull for the schooner.
She's been rigged new throughout and looked more like a yacht than a coasting vessel knocking about the southern trades. I had left a note at Maria Debora's for old Tom, and another for him to give Ben Gibson. I had some things to buy, and several of them were by Captain Tugg's advice. He advanced me money for my purchases, and they included a second-hand Winchester and a revolver.
So that settled the mystery of the man I had come clear down here to the Straits of Magellan to find the man whom Captain Adoniram Tugg knew as Professor Vose and who had met so terrible an end when the savages had destroyed Tugg's headquarters.
If he had not been drowned off Bolderhead Neck, and had been hidden away in this wilderness so many years, he had gone to his account now. I was sorry I had come down here in the Sea Spell; but being here I had to somewhat wait upon Captain Tugg's pleasure before I could get away. We warped the Sea Spell off the shoal and found her uninjured. She had scarcely started a plank.
There must have been one traitor among Tugg's men at the encampment or the savages would not have known of the schooner's approach. At least, I shall always believe so.
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