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Now, I do not pretend to account for his remarkable swoon; but his
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Now, I Do Not Pretend To Account For His Remarkable Swoon; But His Reason For Suffering Himself To Be Thus

Removed from the Calabooza was strongly suspected to be nothing more than a desire to insure more regularity in his

Dinner-hour; hoping that the benevolent native to whom he was going would set a good table.

The next morning, we were all envying his fortune; when, of a sudden, he bolted in upon us, looking decidedly out of humour.

"Hang it!" he cried; "I'm worse off than ever; let me have some breakfast!" We lowered our slender bag of ship-stores from a rafter, and handed him a biscuit. While this was being munched, he went on and told us his story.

"After leaving here, they trotted me back into a valley, and left me in a hut, where an old woman lived by herself. This must be the nurse, thought I; and so I asked her to kill a pig, and bake it; for I felt my appetite returning. 'Ha! Hal - oee mattee - mattee nuee' - (no, no; you too sick). 'The devil mattee ye,' said I - 'give me something to eat!' But nothing could be had. Night coming on, I had to stay. Creeping into a corner, I tried to sleep; but it was to no purpose; - the old crone must have had the quinsy, or something else; and she kept up such a wheezing and choking that at last I sprang up, and groped after her; but she hobbled away like a goblin; and that was the last of her.

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