When hereached the end of the line he came back and addressed them jovially. Although the coast and the immediate littoral were accurately recorded,the interior, as usual, had been left blank or filled with conjecture,apocryphal lakes and mountains that no eye had ever beheld. Leave them for the Dutch? Hal asked. Hal's face mirrored his desperation.
But, in the meantime,I trust you to keep a fair accounting of my share, and to deliver it tome when next we meet plus the usual interest, of course. He lit the lantern and reached for the brownbottle that would give him relief. But Hal knew that he had made a mortal enemy. Within the hour the deck was knee-deep in dead fish and they were allsmeared to the eyebrows with slime and scales.
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