Go forward and deal with the guards. one was watching hernow. Theyheard the roaring of the black-maned male fading with distance as hewandered away. Hal wasonly performing his duty, but the lad was not the only one aboard whohad pored for hours over the almanac and the tables.
When the surgeon had left, Manseer ordered them to anointthemselves all over from a stone jar of oil. Maatzuyker knotted the rope under his armpits and sent him into thewater. The iron hook skidded across the poop deck, but when Aboli jerked itback it lodged firmly in the galleon's stern rail. Then, when he was almost half-way across, Ahmed stumbled abruptly intothe main channel of the river, and his head disappeared below thesurface.
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