Beadle's Dime Novels No. 94: The Mad Skipper — page 41: what you’re looking at

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Before they could reply, the captain, who had come on - deck soon after Onoolo, darted into the midst of <he group, his eyes rolling in his head, his whole face conyulsed with frantic rage. “Go below, you miserable dogs!” he, shricked, glancing round upon the islanders. “ Go below before I tear you limb from limb! Oh! you black-skinned villains! ye miserable curs; uo you dare to make a disturbance aboard my ship? Go below, I tell ye—every man of you !” The men did not move; they glanced at the dusky mate ag if waiting for him to sanction the captain’s order. “Blast ye, why don’t you obey!” roared the skipper, pick- ing up a handspike. “Jump! jump, I tell ye!” ~“ Capen!’ said Onoolo, “dey no like to be call names; s’pose you speak to ’em like gentleman dey go.” “A gentleman! Who do you suppose could speak to rascals of their color like a gentleman or— “ Remember, I of de same color,” interrupted the mate, his eyes flashing angrily. “S’pose you call dem dogs you call me dog too ?” “ Ay, ay, you and évery other native is but little better than a dog—lI repeat it!” yelled the captain, stamping the deck in his rage. “ But!’ he suddenly added, while a strange, rest- less, unmeaning glance shot from his eyes, “ what difference does it make, since we'll all go down together! Ho! ho! ho!—We'll soon hear the roaring and see the whirling of the mad waters as they go round and round! Royals, stidding- -sails, every thing she can cart y—erack ' em on the old ship! A merry, merry time of it we'll have going down among the sea-demons ! ate He pressed his hayds to his brow, and glowering at the savages, broke into a fit of wild, unearthly laughter, that rung through every corner of the ship: “Hi! hi!’ exclaimed Onoolo, the angry expression in his eyes giving place to one of mingled veneration and awe. “ Me half t'ink so, before, but certain now, ‘ Hooki-nu,’ (a spirit of the air) speak to this man. He see what goin’ to happen be- fore happen. Mus’ do eberyting he tell us.” A low murmur circulated among the dusky group. =) ‘huddled closely together with bowed heads, and eyes.expres