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CHAPTER TWO
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PASSAGE FROM THE CRUISING GROUND TO THE MARQUESAS—SLEEPY TIMES ABOARD SHIP—SOUTH SEA SCENERY—LAND HO—THE FRENCH SQUADRON DISCOVERED AT ANCHOR IN THE BAY OF NUKUHEVA—STRANGE PILOT—ESCORT OF CANOES—A FLOTILLA OF COCOANUTS—SWIMMING VISITORS—THE DOLLY BOARDED BY THEM—STATE OF AFFAIRS THAT ENSUE
I CAN never forget the eighteen or twenty days during which the light trade-winds were silently sweeping1 us towards the islands. In pursuit of the sperm2 whale, we had been cruising on the line some twenty degrees to the westward3 of the Gallipagos; and all that we had to do, when our course was determined4 on, was to square in the yards and keep the vessel5 before the breeze, and then the good ship and the steady gale6 did the rest between them. The man at the wheel never vexed7 the old lady with any superfluous8 steering9, but comfortably adjusting his limbs at the tiller, would doze10 away by the hour. True to her work, the Dolly headed to her course, and like one of those characters who always do best when let alone, she jogged on her way like a veteran old sea-pacer as she was.
What a delightful11, lazy, languid time we had whilst we were thus gliding12 along! There was nothing to be done; a circumstance that happily suited our disinclination to do anything. We abandoned the fore-peak altogether, and spreading an
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westward
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narcotic
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varied
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reigned
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rippling
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raven
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peculiar
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darting
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galley
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appellation
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bestowed
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latitude
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longitude
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propriety
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distinguished
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celebrated
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adventurous
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dwelling
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corrupted
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beheld
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catching
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groves
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| 树丛,小树林( grove的名词复数 ) | |
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swelling
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brooks
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furrowed
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promontory
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vessels
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hulls
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bristling
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eminences
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| 卓越( eminence的名词复数 ); 著名; 高地; 山丘 | |
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tranquilly
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rebuking
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invincible
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benevolent
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intoxication
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amiable
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utterly
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navigate
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scrambling
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lieutenant
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savage
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foul
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steadily
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skull
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savages
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proprietor
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impelled
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