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Updated: May 14, 2025
"'Tis a perfect paradise!" exclaimed Mark, stopping suddenly and looking around with admiration. "Yes, massa," murmured Ebony, with solemn looks, "if dere was on'y a few wegibles cooked! Flowers is all bery well to look at, but we can't heat him." "Well, if we can't eat, we can, at all events, sleep," returned Mark.
Thus John Hockins carried a cutlass in his belt, but no fire-arm, and the young doctor had his double-barrelled gun, with powder-flask and shot-belt, but Ebony being a free-and-easy, jovial sort of nigger went unarmed, saying he "didn't want to carry no harms, seein' he would need all harms he had to carry back de fresh wegibles wid."
"Beef!" exclaimed Hockins in some excitement, as he pointed to the animal nearest to them, which happened to be a black, sleek, fat young bull, with slender limbs and fierce eyes. "Neber mind the wegibles, massa; shot 'un!" exclaimed Ebony in an excited whisper, as he turned his glaring eyeballs on his leader.
"Seems to me dere's no black mans here, so may's well try de woods for wild wegibles." "No no, Ebony," said the first mate, who had charge of the boat, "you'll be sure to desert if we let you go unless we send Hockins to look after you. He's the only man that can keep you in order." "Well, I'll take Hockins also," said Mark, "you heard the captain say I was to have two men. Will you go, Hockins?"
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