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he was thoroughly cured. As is commonly the 

 case, he got well in spite of his medicine ! 



Of course we had the usual port routine to 

 follow up. Beside water and wood, we laid in a 

 supply of beans — much like Lima beans, and a 

 lot of beef and mutton. The live beef was a sight. 

 The bullocks were large and fat, with humps on 

 their fore-shoulders. Splendid fellows they were, 

 sleek as silk, the finest I ever saw ! And the 

 prices ! — you could buy them for an old flint- 

 lock musket and a few brass-headed tacks. (Why 

 the tacks ? you ask. For ornament. The savages 

 pound them into the wooden parts of their guns.) 

 We would purchase those bullocks on the shore 

 and then we would swim them off to the ship 

 and hoist them in by their long horns. 



Then, too, there was the matter of the leak. 

 That had to be attended to immediately. We 

 took the cargo out of the after part of the ship to 

 lighten her, and then we found the cause of the 

 trouble. 



There are no accidents in the world — never 

 were — never will be. Everything has its cause, 

 and that particular thing, the leak, had this 

 cause — the copper bottom had not been securely 

 soldered about the stern-post. Through the tiny 

 water-course thus left exposed, the worms had got 



