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These measurements will give the reader some idea of what these huge mammals look like. And Captain Tugg had not been far out of the way when he declared the whale to be worth two thousand dollars. "What you got to run oil into, sir?" I asked, curiously. "Wait a bit; wait a bit," returned the Yankee, puffing on his cheroot. "Let's see what these Yaller-skins have to offer.
Ye see, they fought for the Professor and the traps. But them scoundrels was too many for them." It was a dreadful sight. I do not want to write about it. Nor do I wish to give the particulars of our search of the neighborhood for some trace of the single white man who had been in the vicinity the man whom Tugg called the Professor, but who was the Man of Mystery to me.
And so we sailed on, and on, without a thought of danger until, of a sudden, I felt the schooner jar throughout her whole length. Captain Tugg jumped and yelled to Pedro: "What in tarnation you doin', numbskull? Hi, one o' you boys! git into the chains with the lead."
"And git some of your watch down there, Pedro," added Captain Tugg, "and swab the grease off her side. Ugh! There ain't nothing nastier than a whale." "Yet you were going to cut her up?" I suggested, curiously. He favored me with a wink. "Buncome, Bluff," he murmured. "That little play-acting turned me two hundred dollars in gold.
Finally a man aboard the tug hailed us. Captain Tugg answered in Spanish, and an excited conversation ensued at least, excited upon the side of the man aboard the steam vessel and his compatriots. The skipper of the Sea Spell seemed particularly calm and unshaken. I could understand but little of the talk, although I had begun to pick up the bastard Spanish spoken along the coast.
We found then that the savages had totally disappeared. "We can warp her off and I doubt if she's damaged at all," declared Captain Tugg. "But I'm too worried about the Professor to begin that now. I'm going to leave Pedro here and we'll take some of the boys and sail up to headquarters and see what's happened there. You can bring your hardware, Mr. Webb.
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