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CHAPTER XIV A Momentous Passage
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Thenceforward the speed with which the wounded man got better was marvellous except to those who knew how the body of man under primitive1 conditions and perfectly2 healthy can recover from what in civilization must be fatal injuries. I have alluded3 to this in one of the earliest chapters in dealing4 with the accident to Philip, C. B.’s father, although his injuries were far less dangerous than those that his son had just sustained. But in four days after the ship had left Honolulu, C. B. was able to come on deck without assistance, and to take short walks up and down the deck until pain within, along the track of the newly-healed wound, warned him to rest.
As the captain had hoped, the ship was now the abode5 of peace, as far as could be seen, and there was perfect harmony between all hands, even Mr. Winsloe having regained6 his original placidity7 of temper. All that now seemed in doubt was the capacity of the new harponeers, who, however, as far as their ship work went, shaped thoroughly8 well. So day after day slipped away and the vessel9 drew gradually near the turbulent Japan grounds without as yet a single spout10 having been seen.
The captain was just beginning to get fretty,[Pg 199] for his average was falling faster than he liked, when without intimating that such was his intention C. B. turned up one morning in the gravy-eye watch and told Merritt that he had come to stay. He was a bit trembly and weak still, but felt no pain whatever from his wounds, which had perfectly healed, and he therefore argued that he would be much better at work than lolling about. Merritt
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