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Title: The merchant vessel : a sailor boy's voyages around the world
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Nordhoff, Charles, 1830-1901 LaPlante, Charles. egr Wyllie, W. L. (William Lionel), 1851-1931. ill Dodd, Mead & Company. pbl
Subjects: Boys Conduct of life Voyages and travels Voyages around the world Merchant ships Seafaring life Sailing Slavery
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead & Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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s passenger inanother vessel, and was probably amply rewarded by theowners for his faithful services. The ship was sent to Londonby the consul, and arrived there, as before said, while we lay inthe docks. We witnessed on board her a most singular instance ofaffection in two snakes toward their master. An American, whohad been connected with some of the menageries travellingthrough Chili and Peru, and had afterward owned a collection ofanimals himself, in Lima, found the business not to pay, anddetermining to leave the country, had engaged a cabin passagein the British ship. He had sold out his animals, all but two large anacondas,one thirteen, the other seventeen feet long. For these theBritish captain had agreed to give him a cabin passage toLondon, and one hundred dollars, cash, on their arrival there,provided, the snakes were then alive. They arrived safe andsound, and were duly taken ashore by the captain. Whentheir former owner, however, asked for the hundred dollars, he CO HPMMH
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A SNAKE STORY. 12 was refused it, under various pretences, and it became evid<that the captain, having the snakes in his possession, intendedto keep our countryman out of the money justly due him. The American was much distressed at this turn in hisaffairs, as he had depended on this sum of money to bearhis expenses in getting back to the United States. He con-sulted our officers about the matter, but they could not showhim any way to help himself out of his difficulties. This matter had been pendent nearly a week after theship entered the dock, when one morning the British captainwas heard very anxiously inquiring as to the whereabouts ofMr. Reynolds, his late passenger. It appeared that the snakeswould not eat, and showed other symptoms of being ill atease under his care, and he entertained fears that they woulddie before he could dispose of them. He therefore came inquest of their former owner, to ask his advice and assistancein setting them right again. It now for the first tim

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