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On his near approach to the vessel, the man appeared absolutely 

 frantic. He worked and sculled away with his paddle as if he 

 had been mad; and when at last he got on deck, having previ- 

 ously cast the little horrible image up before him, he began to 

 curse and to swear, at one moment in the Eboe tongue, at another 

 in bad Creole English, as if he had been possessed with the 

 devil — 



" Hoo chockaro, chockaro, soo ho — Oh, who could tink young 

 woman could hab so mosh deceit ! — Ahj Queykarre tol de rol 

 zig tootle too — to leave me Quacco, and go join dera Eboe wil- 

 lain I " Then, as if recollecting himself — " But how do I know 

 dat dem no frighten him for say so ? Ah, now I remember one 

 ogly dag stand beside him hab long clear knife in him hand. 

 Oh, Lord! Tooka, tooka — Cookery Pee Que — Ah, poor ting! 

 dem hab decoy him — cheat him into dem power — and to morrow 

 morning sun will see dem cook him — ay, and eat him. Oh dear, 

 dem will eat my vife — oli, him cost me feefty dallar — eat my 

 feefty dallar — oh Kickerehoo, Rotan ! " And straightway he 

 cast himself on the deck, and began to yell and roll over and 

 over, as if he had been in the greatest agony. Presently he 

 jumped on his legs again, and ran and laid hold of the little 

 graven image. He caught it up by the legs, and smashed its 

 head down on the hard deck. "You dam Fetish— you false 

 willain, dis what you give me for kill fowl, eh ? and tro de blood 

 in you face, eh ? and stick fedder in you tail, eh ? and put 

 blanket over you shoulder when rain come, and night fog roll 

 over we and make you chilly ? What you give me for all dis ? 

 You drive me go on board dat footy little Englis crusier, and 

 give my vife, cost me feefty dallar, to be roast and eat ? Oh, 

 Massa Carpenter, do lend me one hax ;" and seizing the tool that 

 had been brought on deck, and lay near him, he, at a blow split 

 open the Fetish's head, and continued to mutilate it, until he was 

 forcibly disarmed by some of the men that stood by him. 



From the Cruise of the Midge. 



