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Chapter Eighteen.
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Describes Some of the Doings of Yoosoof and His Men in Procuring1 Black Ivory from the Interior of Africa.
A dirty shop, in a filthy2 street in the unhealthy town of Zanzibar, is the point to which we now beg leave to conduct our reader—whom we also request to leap, in a free and easy way, over a few months of time!
It is not for the sake of the shop that we make this leap, but for the purpose of introducing the two men who, at the time we write of, sat over their grog in a small back-room connected with that shop. Still the shop itself is not altogether unworthy of notice. It is what the Americans call a store—a place where you can purchase almost every article that the wants of man have called into being. The prevailing4 smells are of oil, sugar, tea, molasses, paint, and tar5, a compound which confuses the discriminating6 powers of the nose, and, on the principle that extremes meet, removes the feeling of surprise that ought to be aroused by discovering that these odours are in close connexion with haberdashery and hardware. There are enormous casks, puncheons, and kegs on the floor; bales on the shelves; indescribable confusion in the corners; preserved meat tins piled to the ceiling; with dust and dirt encrusting everything. The walls, beams, and rafters, appear to be held together by means of innumerable cobwebs. Hosts of flies fatten7 on, without diminishing, the stock, and squadrons of cockroaches8 career over the earthen floor.
In the little back-room of this shop sat the slave-dealer Yoosoof, in company with the captain of an English ship which lay in the harbour.
Smoke from the captain’s pipe filled the little den9 to such an extent that Yoosoof and his friend were not so clearly distinguishable as might have been desired.
“You’re all a set of false-hearted, wrong-headed, low-minded, scoundrels,” said the plain-spoken captain, accompanying each asseveration with a
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cannon
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transact
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banyan
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n.菩提树,榕树 | |
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decided
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scotch
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savages
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wretches
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领事( consul的名词复数 ); (古罗马共和国时期)执政官 (古罗马共和国及其军队的最高首长,同时共有两位,每年选举一次) | |
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recurrence
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Neptune
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onlooker
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proceeding
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brass
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caravan
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乘船( embark的过去式和过去分词 ); 装载; 从事 | |
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abode
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teeming
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enjoyment
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profusely
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garnished
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tributaries
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utterly
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Forsaken
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warrior
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ammunition
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