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Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas

CHAPTER III
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FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE JULIA OWING to the absence of anything like regular discipline, the vessel was in a state of the greatest uproar.

The captain, having for some time past been more or less confined to the cabin from sickness, was seldom seen.

The mate, however, was as hearty as a young lion, and ran about the decks making himself heard at all hours.

Bembo, the New Zealand harpooner, held little intercourse with anybody but the mate, who could talk to him freely in his own lingo.

Part of his time he spent out on the bowsprit, fishing for albicores with a bone hook; and occasionally he waked all hands up of a dark night dancing some cannibal fandango all by himself on the forecastle.


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