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CHAPTER IV Evil from Without
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Now it happened that one morning at about eight o’clock when the fishermen were about to launch out into the deep in their regular quest for food that a sudden cry of “Sail ho!” was raised and re-echoed until all the islanders heard it. A large sailing ship was standing1 in towards the bay with the obvious intention of communicating, and immediately everybody was on the alert. For in spite of their happy care-free life, which left little to be desired by them, there were certain needs which they had inherited, such as clothes, tea, sugar, flour, and tools, which the presence of a ship always brought vividly2 to their remembrance. And in consequence they were always ready to barter3 their simple commodities: fruit, vegetables, eggs, fowls4, pigs, fish, etc., for whatever they could induce the visitors to part with except liquor and tobacco.
So a boat was hurriedly launched, manned by the stoutest5 rowers, with Philip at the steer6 oar7, and C. B. at the stroke, while the rest of the islanders busied themselves collecting such produce as they hoped the ship might be in want of. Fowls and eggs and fruit and milk and pigs, fresh food such as ships in that day were so often glad of. As the boat dashed alongside in splendid style the rowers noted8 that the ship was thronged9 with passengers of a curious type to them, hundreds of yellow faces peered[Pg 47] over the side and an incessant10 high pitched babblement
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babblement
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warp
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vessel
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obedience
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massacres
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spoke
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exhausted
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kindly
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Christian
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pastor
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foaming
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oars
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strenuously
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tormented
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swell
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abruptly
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shipping
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wailing
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wont
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concord
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gathering
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unity
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profess
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Christians
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chapel
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glorified
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