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Mexico, blended a little too strongly, perhaps, with the wishes of a man who
was born near the sun, to avenge his wrongs, real or fancied.
While this dialogue was going on between Spike and his passenger, as they
paced the quarter-deck, one quite as characteristic occurred in the galley,
within twenty feet of them--Simon, the cook, and Josh, the steward, being the
interlocutors. As they talked secrets, they conferred together with closed
doors, though few were ever disposed to encounter the smoke, grease, and fumes
of their narrow domains, unless called thither by hunger.
Whatyou t ink of dis matter Josh? demanded Simon, whose skull having the
well-known density of his race, did not let internal ideas out, or external
ideas in as readily as most men s. Our young matewas at de light-house beyond
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all controwersy; and how can he be den on dat rock over yonder, too?
Dat is imposserbul, answered Josh; derefore I says it is n t true. I
surposes you know dat what is imposserbul is n t true, Simon. Nobody can t be
out yonder and down here at de same time. Dat is imposserble, Simon. But what
I wants to intermate to you, will explain all dis difficulty; and it do show
de raal super ority of a coloured man over de white poperlation. Now, you mark
my words, cook, and be full of admiration! Jack Tier came back along wid de
Mexican gentle em, in my anchor-watch, dis very night! You see, in de first
place, ebbery t ing come to pass in nigger s watch.
Here the two dark-skinned worthies haw-haw d to their heart s content;
laughing very much as a magistrate or a minister of the gospel might be
fancied to laugh, the first time he saw a clown at a circus. The merriment of
a negro will have its course, in spite of ghosts, or of anything else; and
neither the cook nor the steward dreamed of puting in another syllable, until
their laugh was fairly and duly ended. Then the cook made his remarks.
How Jack Tier comin back explain der differculty, Josh? asked Simon.
Did n t Jack go away wid Miss Rose and de mate, in de boat dat got adrift,
you know, in Jack s watch on deck?
Here the negroes laughed again, their imaginations happening to picture to
each, at the same instant, the mystification about the boat; Biddy having told
Josh in confidence, the manner in which the party had returned to the brig,
while he and Simon were asleep; which fact the steward had already
communicated to the cook. To these two beings, of an order in nature different
from all around them, and of a simplicity and of habits that scarce placed
them on a level with the intelligence of the humblest white man, all these
circumstances had a sort of mysterious connection, out of which peeped much
the most conspicuously to their faculties, the absurdity of the captain s
imagining that a boat had got adrift, which had, in truth, been taken away by
human hands. Accordingly, they laughed it out; and when they had done
laughing, they returned again to the matter before them with renewed interest
in the subject.
Well, how all dat explain dis differculty? repeated Simon.
In dis wery manner, cook, returned the steward, with a little dignity in
his manner. Ebbery t ing depend on understandin , I s pose you know. If Mr.
Mulford got taken off dat rock by Miss Rose and Jack Tier, wid de boat, and
den dey comes here altogedder; and den Jack Tier, he get on board and tell
Biddy all dis matter, and den Biddy tell Josh, and den Josh tell de cook--what
for you surprise, you black debbil, one bit?
Dat all! exclaimed Simon.
Dat just all--dat ebbery bit of it, do n t I say.
Here Simon burst into such a fit of loud laughter, that it induced Spike
himself to shove aside the galley-door, and thrust his own frowning visage
into the dark hole within, to inquire the cause.
What s the meaning of this uproar? demanded the captain, all the more
excited because he felt that things had reached a pass that would not permit
him to laugh himself. Do you fancy yourself on the Hook, or at the Five
Points?
The Hook and the Five Points are two pieces of tabooed territory within the
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limits of the good town of Manhattan, that are getting to be renowned for
their rascality and orgies. They probably want nothing but the proclamation of
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