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Updated: June 21, 2025
"Where I puts your bed, massa?" asked Moses, turning his huge eyes on his master. "There under the bush, beside Nigel." "An' where would you like to sleep, Massa Spinkie?" added the negro, with a low obeisance to the monkey, which sat on the top of what seemed to be its favourite seat a water-cask.
Oedidee, who was with me, told me that they had intelligence of the thief, and were gone in quest of him: and in less than an hour news was brought that they had taken him. Shortly after the whole party appeared with the water-cask and compass. Tinah had hold of the thief by the arm and, showing him to me, desired that I would kill him.
He gave me an awful wink, and made a sort of involuntary movement, which jumped him up a few inches, and he bumped down again on the water-cask. "That's as much as to say," thought I, "that he's sat himself on it." "I'll go and inform the captain," said I, "of this affair; he'll hardly believe me when I tell him, I am sure."
"With such poor light it 'ud be hard to make out a flat thing like that a-kickin' in the hollows of the seas." "But you forget," returned Sam, "that it must be a-kickin' on the top o' the sea as well as in the hollows. Another nail thanks. However, I don't expect to see it again." "Well, now, I expects to see it in the mornin' not far-off," said Slagg. "Is the water-cask fast, Robin?"
Hardinge ordered the water-cask to be got out; and he and Marble would have soon been rolling the poor fellow with all their might, or holding him up by the heels, under the notion that the water he had swallowed must be got out of him, before he could again breathe; but the authority of one so high in the profession soon put a stop to this.
It was nothing more than he had prepared himself to expect, when the Coromantee, almost as soon as he had steadied himself astride of the water-cask, shouted, in a loud voice "The Cat'maran! the Cat'maran!" "Where?" cried the sailor. "To leuart?" "Dead in dat same direcshun." "How fur, cookey? how fur?"
He got up on the water-cask, and stood bolt upright; and running his fingers through his hair, made it all stand straight on end. "Confound the binnacle!" said the captain, "if ever I saw the like."
Spirit of any description they had none; but, unlike their brethren of the Atlantic, when driven to extremities in food, they knew not what it was to poison the nutritious properties of the latter by sipping the putrid dregs of the water-cask, in quantities scarce sufficient to quench the fire of their parched palates.
The others had been dragged to the cellar, whither the leering tyrant had followed them. Only one question he had asked them, whether they were of a hot-blooded nature or of a cold. Blows were showered upon them until they answered. Three had said cold, and had been condemned to the torment of the fire. The rest who had said hot were delivered up to the torture of the water-cask.
The great creature was so heavy, I was afraid I must have cut him in pieces to get him to the boat; but with much ado, having stowed the rest, I tumbled him on board. I then filled my water-cask and rowed homewards. Being got to land, I was obliged to bring down my cart, to carry my great beast-fish, as I termed him, up to the grotto.
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