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CHAPTER V. DINGO'S SAGACITY.
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Meantime the "Pilgrim" pursued her course, keeping as much as possible to the east, and before evening closed in the hull2 of the "Waldeck" was out of sight.
Captain Hull still continued to feel uneasy about the constant prevalence of calms; not that for himself he cared much about the delay of a week or two in a voyage from New Zealand to Valparaiso, but he was disappointed at the prolonged inconvenience it caused to his lady passenger. Mrs. Weldon, however, submitted to the detention3 very philosophically4, and did not utter a word of complaint.
The captain's next care was to improvise5 sleeping accommodation for Tom and his four associates. No room for them could possibly be found in the crew's quarters, so that their berths6 had to be arranged under the forecastle; and as long as the weather continued fine, there was no reason why the negroes, accustomed as they were to a somewhat rough life, should not find themselves sufficiently7 comfortable.
After this incident of the discovery of the wreck8, life on board the "Pilgrim" relapsed into its ordinary routine. With the wind invariably in the same direction, the sails required very little shifting; but whenever it happened, as occasionally it would, that there was any tacking9 to be done, the good-natured negroes were ever ready to lend a helping10 hand; and the rigging would creak again under the weight of Hercules, a great strapping11 fellow, six feet high, who seemed almost to require ropes of extra strength made for his special use.
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(帆船)抢风行驶,定位焊[铆]紧钉 | |
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enjoyment
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fawn
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brute
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specimen
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astonishment
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eminent
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incessantly
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tormented
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anecdote
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monotonous
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enlist
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persuasion
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apprentice
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withdrawn
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vt.收回;使退出;vi.撤退,退出 | |
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drawn
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naturalist
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parasite
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specimens
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votaries
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gambolling
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darting
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exclamation
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