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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's more afraid of us than we are of him, said Tom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now let us get as far up the cavern as we can." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's the shark, perhaps, said Tom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have the muskets ready. I'll give him a shot, and that will make him keep his distance. Wait until he tries it again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There! he's got my oar in his jaws,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's one thing certain: that's not a place to bathe in, nor would it be pleasant to tumble overboard hereabouts, observed Tom, gravely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never can see those black monsters, with their wicked eyes, floating near and looking up at one...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We shall probably see them if we cut directly across the island," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I hope you fellows are not going to begin a long march without some food, observed Billy, who was noted for his excellent appetite." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have no game, nor have we caught any fish. It's lucky that we brought some food, as I advised." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, there are some cocoa-nut trees, and very fine ones, too. I thought there were none on the island." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are cocoa-nut trees, sure enough, said Desmond," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bless the man whoever planted these, said Jerry Bird;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bedad, I'll be afther doing it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stand from under," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We ought not to take more than we want, said Tom;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As the creatures can see us and our lines, we shall have no chance of catching any," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just try, your honour, exclaimed Pat;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I told you so, cried Pat exultingly;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'll mighty soon have a boat load," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shure, it matters very little to them whether they are caught by one of us or by those black brutes, excepting for the honour of the thing, and the pleasure of tasting a crab's leg before they die," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We ought to have got back before this," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shout, all of you, as loud as you can, he exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good-bye, Desmond; good-bye, Billy, he said, shaking hands." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I am swallowed by one of those brutes, say it happened while I was doing my...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot let him go alone," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am coming, Mr Rogers, he cried;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do not lose heart, Bird, he cried out, for he guessed that his companion would have seen the shark's fin;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank Heaven, you have escaped, said Desmond." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I saw what happened; my heart sank so low that I thought it would never get up again to its right place. However, `a miss is as good as a mile'; now the sooner we are away from this the bett...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Those guns were not fired in the harbour, observed Tom;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We shall have a strong wind in our teeth, and a pretty heavy pull, observed Tom to Gerald." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish we had not spent so much time here; and I shall justly get the blame, if anything happens." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must heave our cargo overboard, said Tom, when he saw the heavy seas come tumbling in." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The lighter the boat is the better." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Shure, a fine feast we are giving to the sharks," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There she is, he exclaimed at length;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're right, sir, he said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's that old rascal Harry Cane at his tricks again, cried Tim;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish that he had waited a bit, and let us get comfortably on board." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never complain, Tim, observed Pat;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beg pardon, Mr Rogers, but it won't do, he said at length;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must look out for a smooth, and pull the boat round, lads," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Arrah! shure, that will be a hard matter to find," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Give way, lads! give way!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Desmond, use your eyes as you never have before, and try and see that clump of trees, or find out the passage." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I see a dark spot almost ahead," }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you do, that must be the entranc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's the passage, I'm sure of it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're right, answered Tom." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Give way, lads!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank Heaven, we are safe!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We may rightly acknowledge that; but what has become of the other boats and the old barkey?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, lads, a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must find some sheltered place, where we can put up our tent, said Tom to Desmond." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A high overhanging rock would suit us best, but it won't do to be under these tall mahogany trees, which may at any moment crash down upon our heads, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She will be steady enough now, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here are the rocks, though not the sign of a cave can I see." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps, if we skirt along them, we may find a still more sheltered place than this," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us see what you have brought, Billy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought that we should want something for supper, and it is always wise to carry one's grub with one," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Much obliged to you for your forethought, said...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cease, rude Boreas," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I pray that the dear old _Dragon_ may have escaped this!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must have had your two hours' watch or more. Tom, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just lie down and get a snooze; we may have a long pull before us, and there won't be much room for sleeping in the boat." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What did you fire at?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At a bear, or a wolf, or some big baste or other, to be shure, answered Desmond." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Whatever it was we shall find out, for it cannot be far off. I hit it, I am certain of t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will let the rest sleep on, and see how things look," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Even should the ship appear, we are not likely to be able to get out to her to-day, observed Desmond, pointing to the entrance of the bay, through which the seas came tossing and foaming." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It seems a wonder how we got through last night....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What has happened?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The boat has gone! answered Billy;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Faith! that's bad news, exclaimed Desmond;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, we did not go right up to the spot, for there w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What shall we do without the boat? cried Billy;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope they are wrong in their conjectures, answered Tom;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If she was driven in this direction, she would have broken some of these bushes, but they do not appear to have been injured, he observed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, let us see whereabouts she lay. Do you think you can tell, Bird?" }, { "from": "huma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've thought, sir, of a quicker way of finding her than this, observed Jerry; and taking his axe, he cut a short pole with a sharp point, and ran it down though the sand, along the line which Tom had marked out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's something here, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, where did these come from?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shure, sir, they are from a porker which we found in the bush. It's my belief it's the very baste Mr Desmond shot last night. He was not quite dead, and showed some fight, but we finished him, and cut him...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As hogs live here, there, are probably acorns and nuts of various sorts, so that even should the cocoa-nuts and bananas run short, we need be under no apprehension of wanting vegetable diet, said Tom to Desmond." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Again I say we have good...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you say to dinner, Rogers?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bedad, it's fortunate we have got anything to eat at all, exclaimed Pat, as they approached." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just as I came up, what should I see but a couple of porkers poking their noses into the tent; in another minute they would have got hold of th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stand by, for advance or flight," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hurrah; you've finished the baste, I hope," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd somehow or other missed a couple of pigs, when I caught sight of this big fellow taking a snooze in the sun. I was creeping up to him, when he opened his wicked eyes, and if I hadn't taken ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must take another look-out for the ship, before it gets dark," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She must have run a long distance before the gale, and it will take her some time to beat back, observed Tom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must not give her up yet." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should think not, indeed, answered Desmond." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must compliment you on your pork chops, exclaimed Billy, holding up the remains of one which he had been discussing with the help of his clasp knife." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll trouble you for another, as soon as it's done brown." }, { "from": "hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It will take her a good many hours to get up to our island, even if she is now only just out of sight, observed Tom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Still we must get a flag-staff set up, in case she should appear before we can launch the boat, and we shall be fortuna...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That will show clearly enough where we are, and if they can count the number of handkerchiefs, they will know we are all right," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I trust that the ship will come, said Tom, though he could not throw much confidence into his tone." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not a sign of her," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must get rollers under her, or it will be more than we can do to drag her into the water," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are right, said Tom," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She will not come at all, he exclaimed to himself;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You see we have got plenty to do, and even if we spend a month here, we shall have no time to be idle," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Before we launch our boat, he said, when he rejoined the party at breakfast," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What! Do you think the ship's not coming back for us? asked Billy, in an anxious tone." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should like to change my ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid she will not come at all," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feared as much from the first," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then what do you propose doing? asked Desmond." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't wish to have to live o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If one of those fellows were to run at you, what could you do without a weapon of some sort?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I'd take the boat-hook," }, { "from": "human", "value": "A wild bear would be afther laughing at it in your hands," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am determined not to give her up altogether, said Tom;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have got something for supper, at all events," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must find some substitute for pitch, or we cannot accomplish our voyage, that's very certain," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Had we only a good supply of powder, we might live in luxury on fish, flesh, and fowl, with plenty of vegetables; but without the powder, should we get a continuance of had weather, we may be reduced to the vegetable diet," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As to the hog...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must have him; help, help! shouted Billy;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That I'll not, shure! answered Pat, who maintained his hold like grim death to the hind flapper." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tim, me darlin', be quick here, or the baste will...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Help, help!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hurrah! I don't mind the wetting, cried Billy, as he shook himself like a spaniel on coming out of the water." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We shall live for many a day like aldermen." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's little chance of our eating t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder I did not at once think about that, said Tom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We will do as you propose immediately." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a pity we have not some port wine, and cayenne pepper, and some lemons," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have no cause to complain, since we have abundance of salt, said Tom." }, { "from": "human", "value": "For my part, I think we have every reaso...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where will you find the needles and thread to sew them up?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The needles! shure, I'd be afther makin' them from bone, and there would be no difficulty in finding the thread." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me, Desmond, what do you think is that dark object out there? It is curiously shaped, like--or, is it--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A vessel, to be sure, exclaimed Desmond, whose eyes had been turned towards the spot." }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We may suppose anything we like, said Tom;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These are indeed treasures, said Tom, as he examined them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, if we can only find a cask of tar, we shall be fortunate." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That most likely is forward, or in the hold," }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I only wish we had time and skill, and we might, instead of repairing our own boat, have built another better fitted for our intended voyage. Perhaps we could get the vessel off?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You would not say that if you saw her at high tide, when ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We shall astonish them, exclaimed Desmond," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They'll not fight there, said Tim," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hurrah! he cried out," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and he produced a box of tobacco, in which was still a considerable portion of its original contents." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It will serve us for many a day to come." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have a bright idea, said Tom, as they were about to begin." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll nail on a length in the first place two inches deep, which we can firmly secure with iron hoops to the side of the keel, and into that we can run our screws, so that the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, lads, we will launch her," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For my part, exclaimed Tom, anxious to encourage the rest," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should be ready to sail right across the Pacific in her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And so should I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pardon me for...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At all events, our friends will some day or other learn what has become of us if we are lost," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, pray don't talk about that, cried Billy;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can't bear to think about, anything so dreadful." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank Heaven, we shall commence our voyage under favourable auspices, at all events," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rouse up there, rouse up!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, we must get the cargo on board, and then we will take our last breakfast...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can't we tow them after us, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bosh!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All hands on board, cried Tom at length. He stood the last on the beach. Having a gain cast an eye around to see that nothing was left behind, he once more gave a look at the boat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She is indeed deep in the water--almost too deep, he sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, lads, we will get up the anchor and pull away into the offing, though one cheer before we go for our island home." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She will do it, sir, said Jerry Bird." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She is going better than four knots an hour now, and if there comes a stiff breeze, we shall get six out of her." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you think it would be well to take to the oars?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If we were certain of making good our passage in this direction. I should say so, but before exerting our strength we must see from which quarter the wind will next blow. It may be i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You need not sit up, Billy, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you are wanted I'll call you. Tim will tend the main halyards and keep a look-out forward." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Which way it may come it is impossible to say, but I think v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We will let the first watch have their sleep out, said Desmond." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is a pity to rouse them up until daylight, though you, Pat, can lie down." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Shure, it's only my tongue that's been kept hard a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was afraid so, exclaimed Tom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "However, we will try what we can do. Perhaps it will shift again to its old quarter; but if it holds as it now does, we shall have a dead beat to Yokohama, and it may be many a long day before we get ther...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With this wind we shall soon sight the Bonins, so that we shall not have lost much time. We shall, I hope, make Bailey Islands before dark; after that our course must be south by east, which will carry us clear of several rocks and reefs to the westward, and I hope that if we ha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have not the advantage, recollect, of a large vessel, when a rock or reef may be seen from the mast-head, he observed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Should there be any sea running, the first intimation we may have of our danger may be by finding ourselves on the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe, sir, if we pull on for a few hours we may fall in with some craft becalmed; and though we may wish to continue the voyage in our boat, we may have a talk with her people, hear the news, and maybe get a glass of grog." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Or slice of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not an air in the heavens, said Jerry, in answer to Tom's inquiries, as he rose from his sleeping-place in the stern sheets;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must have patience," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Be careful, sir, and look out for sharks, o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bear a hand; get on board, mates. I caught sight of the fin of a big fellow not twenty fathoms off; he'll be after trying the taste of our legs, if we don't look sharp." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He nearly had me, the baste; for I felt his jaws touch my foot." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It will be a lesson to us in future not to swim away from the side," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will be a lesson for me not to go overboard at all, said Billy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, we shall have fish enough and roots, before we attack the junk; we must husband the biscuit and other things," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is not often I have known a calm last so long as this, exclaimed Jerry, when a whole week had passed, and not a breath of air had filled their sails." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We would have been better off on shore had we known what was coming." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Load the muskets, Desmond, and if we cannot kill that brute astern, and get a few slices out of his carcase, we will, at all events, drive him away." } ]