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CHAPTER XXVIII — Suspicions Laid, And Something About The Calmuc
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Though abounding1 in details full of the savor2 of reality, Samoa's narrative3 did not at first appear altogether satisfactory. Not that it was so strange; for stranger recitals4 I had heard.
But one reason, perhaps, was that I had anticipated a narrative quite different; something agreeing with my previous surmises5.
Not a little puzzling, also, was his account of having seen islands the day preceding; though, upon reflection, that might have been the case, and yet, from his immediately altering the Parki's course, the Chamois, unknowingly might have sailed by their vicinity. Still, those islands could form no part of the chain we were seeking. They must have been some region hitherto undiscovered.
But seems it likely, thought I, that one, who, according to his own account, has conducted himself so heroically in rescuing the brigantine, should be the victim of such childish terror at the mere6 glimpse of a couple of sailors in an open boat, so well supplied, too, with arms, as he was, to resist their capturing his craft, if such proved their intention? On the contrary, would it not have been more natural, in his dreary7 situation, to have hailed our approach with the utmost delight? But then again, we were taken for phantoms8, not flesh and blood. Upon the whole, I regarded the narrator of these things somewhat distrustfully. But he met my gaze like a man. While Annatoo, standing10 by, looked so expressively11 the Amazonian character
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abounding
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expressively
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conjured
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conceal
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civilized
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a.有教养的,文雅的 | |
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wrecking
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plundering
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掠夺,抢劫( plunder的现在分词 ) | |
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推测,猜想( conjecture的名词复数 ) | |
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conjecturing
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repose
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skeptical
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vaguely
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wresting
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conjugally
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nautically
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bounty
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prophesied
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wrecked
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smiting
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Christian
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conqueror
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defiance
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potent
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salvation
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aspirations
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intrepid
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ransacked
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victorious
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cannon
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poetically
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tack
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descending
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chattels
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mighty
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pretentious
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purely
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utterance
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dismal
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