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been in the Pacific Islands, where the natives think
it a good joke to kill a man and cook him afterwards.
He had seen the Pyramids, and watched the blue
Mediterranean from the top of Mount Carmel.

‘In fact, concluded the old home-sick Jack-tar,
‘I’ve seen many things wonderful, and many things
beautiful—flowers and fruit such as might have

grown in Eden, and birds of yellow and crimson
splendour, such as might have lodged in her
branches—but, believe me, I never saw a spot any-
where that could compare with Blackfoot. I’d rather
live in the old ruined house next door—of course,
when the windows are mended—than in the finest
marble palace I ever saw. ‘Yes, in the words of a

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