Omoo By Herman Melville





















































































































 -  Should our conjecture prove correct, all we had to
expect, according to our most experienced shipmates, was the fag end - Page 128
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Should Our Conjecture Prove Correct, All We Had To Expect, According To Our Most Experienced Shipmates, Was The Fag End Of A Cruise In One Of Her Majesty's Ships, And A Discharge Before Long At Portsmouth.

We now proceeded to put on all the clothes we could - frock over frock, and trousers over trousers - so as to be in readiness for removal at a moment's warning.

Armed ships allow nothing superfluous to litter up the deck; and therefore, should we go aboard the frigate, our chests and their contents would have to be left behind.

In an hour's time, the first cutter of the Reine Blanche came alongside, manned by eighteen or twenty sailors, armed with cutlasses and boarding pistols - the officers, of course, wearing their side-arms, and the consul in an official cocked hat borrowed for the occasion. The boat was painted a "pirate black," its crew were a dark, grim-looking set, and the officers uncommonly fierce-looking little Frenchmen. On the whole they were calculated to intimidate - the consul's object, doubtless, in bringing them.

Summoned aft again, everyone's name was called separately; and being solemnly reminded that it was his last chance to escape punishment, was asked if he still refused duty. The response was instantaneous: "Ay, sir, I do." In some cases followed up by divers explanatory observations, cut short by Wilson's ordering the delinquent to the cutter. As a general thing, the order was promptly obeyed - some taking a sequence of hops, skips, and jumps, by way of showing not only their unimpaired activity of body, but their alacrity in complying with all reasonable requests.

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