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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He ain't shamming. The lad is sick enough for a doctor, that's what 'e is, mate." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shet up, quoth his companion." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let the captain hear you and he'll put you on bread and water for three days, if...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a burning shame, thought he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hut tut! Are you sick of this cruise already, Jacob Duff? This will never do. You're in for it, so make the most of your luck, even if it turns out you do have a fiend for a skipper." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain Gary, interrupted Ralph undauntedly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will your impudence tell me why?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Because I'll kill you! exclaimed Ralph, with such concentrated energy of tone and accent, that Duff trembled inwa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What in heaven's name is it all about? asked Duff, when the two men were alone but for the man at the wheel, who appeared to give no heed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What has the boy done?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's too independent, replied...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Starb'd watch on deck, ahoy!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The barometer is falling, remarked Rucker as he prepared to go below." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're going to have a nasty spell, I guess. You might take a double reef in that jib if it gets worse. If there's any shortnin' of sail beyond that, call the captain....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nuttin' but braid an' water, suh. Capn's orders." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's a shame, thought Duff." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The lad's sick, so I don't reckon he's hungry; but he ought to have something more strengthening than that. I wond...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's a sailor, right, exclaimed Duff one day to Rucker, after Gary had brought the schooner unscathed through a mountainous wave that had threatened to overwhelm everything." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will say this for him, he knows how to handle a ship." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor fellow, said he to himself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is that the kid's grub? he demanded, taking off the lid and surveying the contents." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tis, eh? Well, see here, Bludson, I call it a crying shame. Bread and wate...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ralph, called Duff," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here, boy, said Tom, setting down the tin vessel," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is simply brutal!--it is infamous. Lead the way out of here, bos'n; or--stay! Go to Captain Gary and say that Mr. Duff wants him to come here right away." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's as much as my life's worth, sir." }, { "from": "human", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Duff, said Gary in his most grating tones," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Duff, said Gary in his most grating tones," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Captain Gary, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I profess to be a man--not a br...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, he was able to say at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shamming! Look at his eyes; feel of his pulse." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have no ship's doctor on board as you know, said Gary." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "However, take him to a bunk in the men's quarters and tell the cook to make him some broth. He'll come round; then we will see how he behaves. Do you understand, Mr. Duff?" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "S-a-i-l h-o!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stow that lad and see to him, he repeated, then added sternly:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Be assured of one thing, Mr. Duff, I will not forget your part in this affair." }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's cabin grub, lad, remarked the sailor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Second mate ordered it himself." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold her up a little, Mr. Duff, said the captain to the second officer, who was once more at his post." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She is a man of war, I think, and though I have no love for their prying ways, we must not seem to want to avoid her, now that she ev...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Run up the Stars and Stripes, said Gary." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let him see what we are. Perhaps he'll be satisfied and pass on." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get out the code, Mr. Duff, ordered the captain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's signaling. What in the mischief can he want?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The deuce he is! Well, I suppose we might as well do as he says. Strikes me as a pretty high handed proceeding though, in time of peace. Look! There go his colors at last. British, by thunder!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What schooner is this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should like to know first what right you have to ask that question, replied Gary in his most suave manner." }, { "from": "human", "value": "These are times of peace, when every one is privileged to a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You do, eh. It was Gary's turn to smile now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You men o' war's men often make mistakes as well as other people. This is the Curlew, four days out of Savannah, in ballast, and bound for Bermuda." }, { "from": "human", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If Bermuda is really our port, we've got grub enough, and to spare," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your papers seem to be all right, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Barrels of meal, said the captain." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My owner had a lot on hand, and thought it might fetch a better price in the Bermudas than at home. We can trade ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, men, began the captain, when all had assumed a decorous silence," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, he continued," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If there are any grumblers, speak up. You've got high wages, light work, good grub, and a chance--if you stand by the ship--to share in the profits at the end of the voyage. Now, what d'ye say?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If so be the rest don't care, I don't. If so be some on us had knowed afore we shipped what kind of cargo we was after, we might have thought twice afore we signed. Niggers is niggers. Some say they is humans, some say they ain't. But this here shippin' 'em like two legged cattl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain Gary, said he, when the two were alone in the cabin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know you, replied Gary somewhat scornfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have just about conscience enough not to violate your word when the sacrifice wo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Mr. Duff, won't you please explain to me what the captain meant when he said we were bound after negroes for the Cuban market." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's plain as your nose, my lad. We are going to the west coast of Africa--somewhere about the Congo, I g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And what we're up to is worse than all the rest, isn't it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; it is a vile business. But look here, my lad. Whether you like the job or not, you've shipped, and that means everything on shipboard. Make the best of it while you're with...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll report for duty in the cabin tomorrow, my lad, said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Captain's orders. There won't be much shirking on this ship, whether or no." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Land ho!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, what now, Granger?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Down with you, Ralph, said he, hurrying to the deck himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pipe up all hands and shorten sail! he shouted to the boatswain, then emerging from the forecastle." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lively now!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Meet her! Meet her, Mr. Duff!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ease her! Ease her! roared the captain from the main weather bobstays." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For your lives, men! Shove her nose up in the wind." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That was a close call, captain," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should say so. Who first heard the thing coming?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Young Granger, I believe. There's good stuff in that lad, I make bold to say." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gary doesn't like that boy for some reason, was the mate's inward comment." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder why?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On deck with you, boy, said the sailor who had roused him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Going to snooze all day?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Granger, I want you, said the second mate from the quarter deck." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take three hands and make ready the ship's yawl alongside." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want you, Ralph, and you, Ben, to go along." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I guess you can shoot, can't you? I hear you mountaineers are hard to beat with a long rifle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can shoot a squirrel's head off with grandfather's old gun four times out of five. But this here short, double barreled thing don't look goo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, lads, said Long Tom," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Try it again, urged Duff sharply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quick now." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said the mate, as he and Ben bestowed themselves in the bottom of the boat on some blankets," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ben, whispered Ralph," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There! Look yonder, Ben! cried Ralph." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Confound the luck!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That beats all the creatures I ever seen, said Ben." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He must be the great grandfather of all...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am familiar with the species, said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "True, they do look scary enough, but, strange to say, they are perfectly harmless. Instead of teeth, their mouth is supplied with a kind of suction apparatus by which they suck the blood from sma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One of us must sleep in the yawl, remarked Duff," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad ye're up, was his first remark." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't like the look of things, though what's stirrin' is more nor I can make out." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What have yon seen--or heard, for that matter? One can't see much ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will wake Mr. Duff, whispered Ralph." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You go back to the boat, Ben. They may see us by the fire." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will rouse the chief, replied Duff." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You had bett...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ben, called Ralph," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are surprised by some predatory party of savages, said Duff." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think there are much if any firearms on either side, however. I think we had better help our dusky...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well done! exclaimed the mate, as, after a sharp report, the negro with a club dropped his weapon and hopped away with a ball in his shoulder." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, let us spread out ten paces or so apart and advance. Pump the balls into 'em, boys, but ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't shoot to kill, if you can help it, lads, called Duff." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maim 'em and lame 'em if you can. It isn't our quarrel you know, only as we----" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, we have, if you haven't, said Duff," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You--me--brothers! He pointed from Duff to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You--stay. All--stay. Eat War-i-ka-ri much; eat--heap!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take! he shouted, but Ralph made haste to shove the boat off." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't it horrible? said Ralph, feeling nauseated at the idea and the sight." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They seem friendly enough, yet--they eat one another. Pah!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Many of these coast tribes are cannibals I've heard, com...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lions." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would like to see one, said Ralph." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I thought lions were found mostly in Central and Southern Africa. At least so I've read." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right you a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hardly wonder the captain wants to get away as soon as possible, remarked Duff, as they at last neared the narrow point where the river entered the little harbor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A week in this place and half of us would be down with coast fever." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot understand it at all. Let us row to the landing. Perhaps we may gain some clue to the mystery." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here we are, said he, detaching the bit of paper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps this will give us a little light." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That looks as if a fo'c'stle fist had written it, remarked Duff ruminatively." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, remarked Duff," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She's a sailing corvette, or I'm much mistaken, said the mate," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One ducking! he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But now comes the tug of war. Jump her, boys! Jump her, I say!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give way! G-g-give wa-a-a-y I tell you! Don't you see--we're gone? Keep her nose up! K-e-e-p it u-u-u-p-p! Sharks and sawfish, men! are you going to let her broach? Now then! All together, a-n-d--over she--good heavens!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now head her for the schooner, boys, said Duff, bailing with one hand as he steered with the other." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If we hadn't had the ebb with us, we'd have had to lighten her. Now--give me your oar, Ralph. You steer. We've no time to lose, for if a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A wind, by thunder! exclaimed Duff, renewing his efforts at the oar." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look! the corvette already feels it. Give way, Ben? Gary is none too good to leave us yet if the wind reaches him before we do." }, { "from": "human", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is an order to 'stay where you are', remarked Duff." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! here comes our wind, he added, as a cool, refreshing whiff fanned their brows." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Any other time and I would welcome it; but--come do...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Boat ahoy! came from the schooner." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look alive or we'll leave you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Leave----" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Boat there! Make ready for a rope!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We had warning in the night that the Adams (a sailing vessel in the old United States navy)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose then we might have been left, had we been a little later, or the wind had sprung up sooner." }, { "from": "human", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall I have the sheets trimmed, Captain Gary," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You shall either go before the mast as a common sailor, or you can remain a prisoner in your stateroom during my pleasure. If I gave you your deserts, I'd have you clapped in irons." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Up with you! shouted the captain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lay out along the fo's'l gaff there. Lively now!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's awful! he gasped to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's simply awful. I never had very much liking for niggers--as niggers, but such as this is enough to bring God's punishment on every one of us that have helped to bring it about. Jeemineddy! I wouldn'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May I give those people below some water, sir? he asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They seem to want some." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No! shouted Gary, not sorry to vent his spleen on so inviting an object as Ralph." }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Send that boy aft, ordered Gary, and when Ralph appeared the captain said sneeringly:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You seem to think so much of those black brutes below, I guess you can help deal out their rations. Go to Long Tom." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eat first; drink afterwards, said Bludson, striking lightly right and left to restrain their eagerness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's the law aboard here. Mind, Ralph; one bit of meat apiece--no more." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hark ye! he growled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "D'ye think you'd like to spend all your time down there?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I would rather be dead," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Would, eh? The captain eyed him with leering m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear Cousin:--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why should I be reading the captain's letters? thought he, and a flush of shame crept momentarily to his forehead." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And yet--it doesn't seem to be the one I gave him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain is in his worst mood, and he ain't likely to get better. He'll begin on the crew next. They say he is a perfect fiend for punishment once he gets mad all through. These poor niggers will keep him half crazy as their want of water grows, and the hot calms strike us in the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If we have half an hour more of this wind we're gone up, he growled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Our only chance is a fog." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They understand what that fog might do for us as well as we do, remarked Rucker, as a shell expl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look out! shouted Rucker." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's making ready to give us a broadside." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lively there, men! roared Gary, nearly frantic." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you want to spend a year or ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heave to, men! ordered the captain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But be ready to hoist the fo's'l when I give the word. Down with your helm--down, man! This to the man at the wheel." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We mustn't give those fellows any caus...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lad, said Ben to Ralph as the two slid down the ratlines when their task aloft was done," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I almost wish we were back among those bloody niggers ashore. 'Twould be better than standin' trial for bein' caught on a blackguard of a slaver--b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Make ready to go about," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "About ship!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hard a lee!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've a notion to sink you, he muttered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One solid shot would do the business; but perhaps 'twill be best for us to get away,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That was a close call," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sail ho!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ease away, Mr. Rucker. We've got just the wind that suits us, and I think we have the advantage this time." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If we don't reach the Verdes, said Duff to Ralph one day, as the lad was sweeping the cabin," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mischief, said the mate sententiously." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Those wretches in the hold are up to some trickery. These stupid sentries are too dull or careless to investigate. They are crazy for wate...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's that?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wake up. What have you been drinking? What noise is that?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I see now! foamed Gary, nearly beside himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You fellows on watch have been tapping this rum barrel night and day, I reckon, and mischief going on right under your feet. But I'll even you up. Where is the bo's'n?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's hardly any breeze, said Duff." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lash the wheel, my lad, and bear a hand. If those niggers gain the deck we're gone up sure." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Batten down the main hatch, called Gary, seeing Duff and Ralph." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bludson is gone, but we can hold them until you return." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, men, cried Gary, springing up to the deck, at the rear of his men," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This way! This way! The fiends are after us again." } ]