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CHAPTER IV
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The companionway into the main cabin was a steep ladder, and down this, after his meal, Jerry was carried by the captain. The cabin was a long room, extending for the full width of the Arangi from a lazarette aft to a tiny room for’ard. For’ard of this room, separated by a tight bulkhead, was the forecastle where lived the boat’s crew. The tiny room was shared between Van Horn and Borckman, while the main cabin was occupied by the three-score and odd return boys. They squatted1 about and lay everywhere on the floor and on the long low bunks2 that ran the full length of the cabin along either side.
In the little stateroom the captain tossed a blanket on the floor in a corner, and he did not find it difficult to get Jerry to understand that that was his bed. Nor did Jerry, with a full stomach and weary from so much excitement, find it difficult to fall immediately asleep.
An hour later he was awakened3 by the entrance of Borckman. When he wagged his stub of a tail and smiled friendly with his eyes, the mate scowled4 at him and muttered angrily in his throat. Jerry made no further overtures5, but lay quietly watching. The mate had come to take a drink. In truth, he was stealing the drink from Van Horn’s supply. Jerry did not know this. Often, on the plantation6, he had seen the white men take drinks. But there was something somehow different in the manner of Borckman’s taking a drink. Jerry was aware, vaguely7, that there was something surreptitious about it. What was wrong he did not know, yet he sensed the wrongness and watched suspiciously.
After the mate departed, Jerry would have slept again had not the carelessly latched8 door swung open with a bang. Opening his eyes, prepared for any hostile invasion from the unknown, he fell to watching a large
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怒视,生气地皱眉( scowl的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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gastronomy
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coconuts
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