There is still alarge part of the galleon's cargo missing. The reek of pepper and bilges was stifling, andthe space so confined that all five could not stretch out at the sametime on the deck. It was all so familiar to Hal Courtney. Puffing, the Buzzard lowered him to the deck, and all four seamenbounced on him, pinning his limbs and straddling his back.
Then he felt the hilt ofthe cutlass sticky in his hand as though he had scooped honey from ajar with his fingers. Hal and I will go on upstream. It was a morning dazzling with sunlit magic, and as she filled herlungs with the salt tang of the sea she felt every nerve and muscle ofher body quiver with the impetus of life. The instrument itself was of extraordinarily fineworkmanship.
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