Omoo By Herman Melville





















































































































 -  Having no other suitable way of
distinguishing the sets, I marked mine by tying round them little
scarfs of black - Page 46
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Having No Other Suitable Way Of Distinguishing The Sets, I Marked Mine By Tying Round Them Little Scarfs Of Black Silk, Torn From An Old Neck-Handkerchief.

Putting them in mourning this way, the doctor said, was quite appropriate, seeing that they had reason to feel sad three games out of four.

Of chess, the men never could make head nor tail; indeed, their wonder rose to such a pitch that they at last regarded the mysterious movements of the game with something more than perplexity; and after puzzling over them through several long engagements, they came to the conclusion that we must be a couple of necromancers.

CHAPTER X.

A SEA-PARLOUR DESCRIBED, WITH SOME OF ITS TENANTS

I MIGHT as well give some idea of the place in which the doctor and I lived together so sociably.

Most persons know that a ship's forecastle embraces the forward part of the deck about the bowsprit: the same term, however, is generally bestowed upon the sailors' sleeping-quarters, which occupy a space immediately beneath, and are partitioned off by a bulkhead.

Planted right in the bows, or, as sailors say, in the very eyes of the ship, this delightful apartment is of a triangular shape, and is generally fitted with two tiers of rude bunks. Those of the Julia were in a most deplorable condition, mere wrecks, some having been torn down altogether to patch up others; and on one side there were but two standing. But with most of the men it made little difference whether they had a bunk or not, since, having no bedding, they had nothing to put in it but themselves.

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