As they came on Hal could make out the ugly gravel graze downSchreuder's face, the rents and dirt smears on his uniform. When he looked again inthe mirror he saw that his appearance would no longer shock or alarm. I am Henry Courtney, said Hal, the English Captain of the GoldenBough. Hal leaned out over the edge of the canvas crow'snest and looked down at the deck.
Sabah took up a twig and began to draw inthe dust beside the fire. During thelong nights there was a crushing blackness in the slave deck, like thatat the bottom of a coal shaft. It is where we could expect theBuzzard to be, said Hal. It lifted its head to the sky andgulped and strained to swallow.
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