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through this thing. I should think I might see that vessel through it. I had hardly got

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it to my eye when someone touched me on the shoulder and said, deprecatingly,

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"'I'll have to get you to give that to me, sir. If there's anything you'd like to know

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about taking the sun, I'd as soon tell you as not. But I don't like to trust anybody

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with that instrument. If you want any figuring done—'

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"'I, I, sir!' he was gone to answer a call from the other side. I sought the

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deck -sweep. Who is that spider -legged guerrilla yonder with a

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sanctimonious countenance? It's Captain Jones, sir, the chief mate.

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Well, this goes clear away ahead of anything I ever heard of before. Do

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you—now, I ask you as a man and a brother—do you think I could

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venture to throw a rock here in any given direction without hitting

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a captain of this ship? Well, sir, I don't know. I think likely

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you'd fetch the captain of the watch, maybe, because he's a standing

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right yonder in the way. I went below, meditating, and a little down

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hearted. I thought, if five cooks—