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During the long months of this voyage, cramped in the three ships, these men, most of them young and of the hot-blooded, physically adventurous sort, had time to develop strong likings and dislikings.

The hundred and twenty split into opposed camps.

The several groups nursed all manner of jealousies.

Accusations flew between like shuttlecocks.

The sealed box that they carried proved a manner of Eve's apple.