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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He won't trouble us again, said Desmond." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel pretty sure my bullet went into him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I think mine did, said Tom;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then the sooner we get out the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps the lines are not deep enough, or the bait is not as good as it should be," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's that brute of a shark come back again, cried Tom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Get the muskets, Desmond, and if we can entice him near, we will settle him this time." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's too knowing for that, sir, observed Jerry." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There he comes," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have finished him this time, at all events, cried Desmond." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He'll not take any more of our hooks." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, but we have lost the slices out of his back, cried Billy;" }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish we had gone to Japan, exclaimed Billy Blueblazes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We should have been there long ago, and I don't like these short commons--that I don't." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I acted for the best," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am convinced that by noon--perhaps earlier--to-morrow at latest, we shall see land," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I agree with you, exclaimed Desmond." }, { "from": "human", "value": "On the strength of it, I propose that we have a glass of grog apiece...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Arrah, sir, it will be a hard matter to do that, since I cannot see half a fathom before my nose." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There cannot be much use in looking out, said Billy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If we were near the land we should have ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A sail right ahead! What was Tom's horror at that instant to see a vast pyramid of sail towering above him. The next moment a crash was heard; the stranger's stem struck the boat's bow. At the sound Desmond and Jerry sprang to their feet. Instinctively they knew that they had be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are two men clinging to the craft you ran down, sir. In mercy's sake, lower a boat and pick them up," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aye, aye," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Desmond! Tim!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you know the bearings?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Aye, aye! I guess I do, was the answer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We will give them another hail presently." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bear a hand," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here, take him off first," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank Heaven, you are safe, exclaimed Tom, as he rung Desmond's hand, as if they had been long parted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you not hear our first hail?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No; I suppose it was when I was dragging poor Tim up. H...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not very pleasant fare. It's an ill wind that blows nobody good; so, though I ran you down, you are better off than you would have been starving on such food as that, I guess. Here, Peter, light the galley fire, and get some food as quick as possible. Hot tea in the mean time; a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, strip off your wet duds, and wrap yourselves in these, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, lie down now, until Peter is able to bring you mere substantial fare," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, young gentlemen, do you find yourselves well enough to join us?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At all events, as we are about to fish off there, we will take a look round the neighbouring islands on the chance of discovering the wreck, and rescuing any of her people who may have escaped, said the master." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If we fail in that, we ma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They have, howsumever, already tried to persuade Pat and me to join them, as they have lost two or three men since they came out; but you know, Mr Rogers, that an old man-of-war's man is not likely to desert his flag, and least of all to join a greasy, stinking whaler," }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There! and there again!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish I had gone in one," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So do I, said Desmond;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The whale has disappeared! How provoking!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't suppose that. Depend upon it, the captain has not g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should have to be precious hard up before I turned whaler, observed Billy Blueblazes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is hot work at night, but it must be terrible in a calm, with the blazing sun beating down on the poor fellows' heads." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here's a school of whales close to us. Come up and have a look at them, or perhaps they will be off." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "exclaimed Desmond." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is sure to have that one." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must go and lend a hand, said Tom," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A man overboard! On looking astern they saw him struggling in the waves. Who he was they could not tell. Hastening to the deck, they found the helm put down, the hands raising tacks and sheets to br...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is the poor fellow?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Our second mate. He has been queer for some time, and I don't expect we shall find him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We shall be in time, even now. Pull away!" }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A shark got him, he said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose those who are eating the owner's bread should work for the owner," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In that case we must take care not to go too far, or we may get to windward of them, and they might not venture to leave the shelter which the whale affords them, observed Tom. On this he proposed to the boatswain to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We are not up to th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will your whaleboats live in a sea like this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess they could, young man, if they are handled as we know how to handle them," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then we may still hope to find the captain and mate," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Captain Sibley! He and those with him are gone, I fear. I would have given all I possess to save him. A kinder-hearted man never commanded a ship. His poor wife and children! And the second mate gone! Only that rough diamond in charge, without men enough to handle the ship....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With any other man than Betts I should have less fear; but I know him to be an obstinate, self-opinionated, unprincipled fellow, and very ignorant at the same time, he observed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If he were utterly ignorant of navigation there would be l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wouldn't give way to that fellow, exclaimed the latter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He'll be wanting us to take the ship round Cape Horn to Boston, and then get the credit of bringing her home himself. The best thing we can do is to clap him in irons and take co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now would be our time to seize the fellow, he said to Tom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The doctor has a brace of pistols and a fowling-piece. I found another brace in the first mate's berth. I will speak to Jerry, and he can easily let Tim and Pat know what we are...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May I ask, Mr Betts, what you intend doing?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's that to you? asked the boatswain, gruffly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are only passengers, and will have to go where the ship goes." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He has not thought fit to enlighten me, but I conclude from the course he is steering that he intends visiting the Sandwich Islands," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish that he had thought fit to steer in the opposite direction, observed Tom." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At all events, I hope to ascertain our latitude if the weather clears, and perhaps we may get an observation in the afternoon, or a lunar at night, said Tom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But a good look-out must be kept ahead, for I know that there are numerous sma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should be much obliged to you, Mr Betts, if you can supply me with a sextant, and the use of the chronometer, as I should like to ascertain our position." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then you won't be obliged to me, for I don't intend to let you have them, answer...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Arrah! exclaimed Desmond;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So you fancy I cannot navigate the ship, do you; and must needs try and take an observation yourself? Do you and your mates try that prank again, and I'll land you all on the first island we sight, where you may follow your own pleasure, if the savages don't knock you on the hea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your men will have the first watch, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I knew it would be so, exclaimed the doctor, whom they met in the cabin;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope things won't be so bad as that, said Tom;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can you see land?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No; we are on a coral reef, and our chances of escape are very small." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't let us go in her, said Tom;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll stick by you, whateve...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where are you going to? he shouted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr Rogers says he'll stick by the wreck, and you'll not be deserting him, I hope?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That I'll not. Tim Nolan is not the man to desert his officer," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take me with you! take me with you!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are safer on the wreck than in that boat," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dat you are, Massa Locock, said Peter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See dare where de boat go."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hark! cried Peter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Me tink I hear a shriek; dat come from de boat; depen' upon it we no see her 'gan." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You wouldn't say that, sir, if you had been forward when she struck, answered Jerry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She is entirely stove in, and must have twelve or fourteen feet of water in her by this time. It will be a hard job before long to get any provisions."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then we must try what we can do at daylight, for at present it would be useless to attempt getting anything up. We will see, however, what is to be found in the afterpart of the ship." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, my lads, the first thing we have to do is to collect all the spars and loose plank we can get hold of, to form a raft. We are likely to find land either on one side or the other, perhaps not far off, though we are unable to see it now, and we must manage to reach it and car...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A ship in sight! a ship in sight! she's only just hull down." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Arrah now, ill-luck to it; but my ship has just turned into a white rock, he cried out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shure but it's a mighty disappointment." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, I believe those are three cocoa-nut trees, he cried out cheerfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I see several others away to the eastward." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If there are cocoa-nut trees, there must be land too, for they don't grow o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell you what it is: if we don't get something to eat soon, I for one shall die of inanition, exclaimed Billy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't stand starving at the best of times, and I am suffering dreadfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "observed Gerald." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If the boatswain and the poor fellows with him had stuck to the ship, they might all have been alive now and have reached land without difficulty." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I for one should not mind sailing in her anywhere, provided she was well provisioned, said Billy Blueblazes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't see why we should not try to fetch the Ladrones, if we don't find ourselves very comfortable where we are going." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are pretty well off as it is, said Desmond;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me advise you, gentlemen, to carry some clothing and blankets; they will not weigh much, and we may want them," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must get on board and shove off," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, we are going off without a chart or nautical instrument!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The raft is as fully laden as she should be, observed Tom to Desmond;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The doctor's physic, cases, and instruments, I should say, answered Desmond;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My fear is that we shall find no water on it, and in that case we must search for another," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You forget the milk in the cocoa-nuts," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We should very soon exhaust that," }, { "from": "gpt"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should say that if white kidnappers from your colonies have visited them, they are likely to be anything but friendly, and we shall probably have to fight for our lives," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, my dear sir, we don't know whether there are any inhabitant...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No fear now, doctor, about not finding water, observed Desmond." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Volcanic agency must have been at work to throw up those hills, and I begin to see low trees or shrubs. It may turn out to be after all a fertile spot, though not a very pi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bedad! but the savage is Pat Casey!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where are the other men? asked the doctor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We thought you were all lost soon after you left the wreck." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sure, so they all were entirely but myself, answered Pat;" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dare, gentl'm, exclaimed Peter, as he placed some slices of fried ham before the doctor and midshipmen;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do let a fellow have his sleep out, murmured Billy;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We've plenty to do, answered Tom." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We've got to look out for water, and if we find it to build a hut, and ascertain what food the island pro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should have wished to search for water the first thing, observed Tom;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can you show us where you came on shore, Pat?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bedad, sir, I've been wandering up and down so many times, that I am not ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose we do not recover the boat, how are we to visit the wreck?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must build a smaller raft out of the large one, which we can much more easily manage; and should the weather continue calm, as there appears to be no strong current l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was afraid so, said Tom, as he was going round her, and put his hand through a hole in the bows." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The water ran out here; perhaps she would have suffered more if she had not been thus damaged. If she's stove in nowhere else, we shall b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But where's the grease to come from? I'm afraid we have none," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We've got a piece of bacon, and there would be grease enough from that for the purpose," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must not be alarmed if we do not come back to-night, said Tom;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Remember, Rogers, to bring one of the tripods, the smith's forge and tools, and some piping; for should we fail to discover water, I may be able to construct a still, by...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There she is! he exclaimed;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, we shall want some sleep, said Tom;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We shall want a breeze to-morrow to carry us to the shore, though I hope it will remain calm as at present until then, thought Tom. He very frequently had the greatest difficulty in keeping his eyes open, but he succeeded. He calculated that it was about midnight when he went be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the matter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have found no water, answered the doctor;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I hope we have brought everything you want, doctor," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank Heaven! our lives may ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To my mind, a pretty strong gale would save us a mighty deal of trouble, observed Tim, as he was working away." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The say in a few hours would do more work than we can get through in as many days." }, { "from": "human", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, never mind, we will begin our voyage, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have not been idle, I see; nor have I, he exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have made good progress with my still, and I hope to get it into working order early to-morrow." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You need not be afraid of that, observed the doctor;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should think so, answered Tom, laughing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have no doubt of your success; but some accident may happen, and it is as well to be on the s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We shall have it blowing strong before night, Mr Desmond, observed Jerry;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, answered Tom;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There won't be much of the ship left by to-morrow morning, but I hope that a good part of her will come on shore, and if we can get this lot safe on the beach we shall have timber enough for building our craft and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Welcome back, my young friends. I shall not have to drink the gallon of salt water, exclaimed the doctor, producing a jug." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just taste that." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But there is more here than we want, observed the doctor, looking into the pot;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Neber fear, massa, answered Peter;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very good, observed the doctor;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shure, doesn't this island grow taters?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm afraid not," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thin it must be a poor place, and I'll not wish to spend the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The onions, in our case, will prove the most valuable, as they will have grown to some size before the vessel has been completed, and we can carry them to sea with us. They are the most certain specific against scurvy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One thing, however, we must remember, that our provisions will in time come to an end, observed Tom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must use the most perishable first and keep the best preserved for our voyage." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But we s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should be as eager as you are, did I not think that we may possibly be taken off by some passing vessel, said Tom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As soon as the gale is over we must set up a flag-staff, and a good tall one too, so that it may be seen at a long dist...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have had a good day's work, and I propose that to-morrow we lay down the keel of our vessel," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have other work, which must not be neglected, my friends, said the doctor, when the party were collected at supper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must look after fresh provisions. Perhaps, Rogers, you or Desmond will take your guns and shoot some birds to-morro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We need not expend any powder and shot on these fellows, observed Desmond;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let us ascertain how long the eggs have been sat upon, or we may have the trouble of carrying them for nothing," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We need have no fear of starving, although we might in time get tired of poultry," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as Desmond called it, they secured as many birds as they could carry and also filled their pockets with the freshest-looking eggs they could find. Desmond, giving a wink to Tom, put among them a couple from a nest over which the mother bird had fought stoutly, and which certainl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you bring any eggs? asked the doctor;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Desmond," }, { "from": "human", "value": "There, he exclaimed when Billy appeared," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Doctor, won't you have one?" }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do believe, Desmond, that you brought those on purpose; you have almost spoilt my appetite." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I have done more than anything else has ever accomplished, answered Desmond, laughing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have found nothing except the cocoa-nuts very palatable, but until our garden seeds come up this will prove of greater value than any roots likely to be discovered. I was not aware that it was to be found in so low a latitude. It is a species of sorrel; it seems placed here by...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, said the doctor," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am not afraid about that, said Desmond," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If every sea officer were to serve for a few months in a dockyard, he would gain a knowledge which would be useful under our circumstances, at all events," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If that goes we shall be brought pretty well to a standstill, for I doubt if I can replace it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Our shipbuilding must come to an end, I fear, unless we can replace this simple instrument." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must try again, said Tom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have heard of a missionary in the South Seas who built a vessel entirely by himself, without a single white man to help him, in the course of three or four months. He had to begin without tools, and with o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would save us a great deal of trouble if a vessel would come, observed Billy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If we could build a steamer it would be very well; but we may be becalmed for days together, and I should not like to go through what we had to endure in t...