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Página 154
... mate drive the crowd of natives over the gangway on to the wharf , the hawser cast off , and she sees Falani distinctly leaning over the rail and laughing with the other white men with whom he has just parted . She watches him as the ...
... mate drive the crowd of natives over the gangway on to the wharf , the hawser cast off , and she sees Falani distinctly leaning over the rail and laughing with the other white men with whom he has just parted . She watches him as the ...
Página 187
... mate , and yet afraid . And as he continued calling upon them , two of the crew joined him , and drove the mate against the cook- house , where he stood striking at them , for he was very strong . Then Bill took the cook's axe that ...
... mate , and yet afraid . And as he continued calling upon them , two of the crew joined him , and drove the mate against the cook- house , where he stood striking at them , for he was very strong . Then Bill took the cook's axe that ...
Página 188
... mate came and sat with me near the wheel , for the night was clear and calm , and I was steering . He did not speak contemptuously of the captain , but wonder- ingly , as if he had suddenly become another whom he did not know . And ...
... mate came and sat with me near the wheel , for the night was clear and calm , and I was steering . He did not speak contemptuously of the captain , but wonder- ingly , as if he had suddenly become another whom he did not know . And ...
Página 190
... mate came to us again , saying that he would wait until eight bells , and then force the door , for the weather was hot and the matter could not be delayed . But when eight bells were struck , the moan- ing still continuing , the mate ...
... mate came to us again , saying that he would wait until eight bells , and then force the door , for the weather was hot and the matter could not be delayed . But when eight bells were struck , the moan- ing still continuing , the mate ...
Página 191
... mate again bade me follow him , and called to him also the car- penter and the boatswain , and we four entered the cabin and found him sitting as before , only quieter , but the woman's face was much changed . And the mate spoke brave ...
... mate again bade me follow him , and called to him also the car- penter and the boatswain , and we four entered the cabin and found him sitting as before , only quieter , but the woman's face was much changed . And the mate spoke brave ...
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