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Excerpt from Slave-Catching in the Indian Ocean: A Record of Naval Experiences
My friends, and everybody else's friends, wave their handkerchiefs, and we all wave ours in return. But I, in nautical phrase, go to windward' here, for my friends hoist their colours on the ends of their sticks, and wave them there, so that long after the other handkerchiefs have become but a light foam on the top of a dark billow, my two signals still remind me of the particular items in the crowd who will miss me when I am gone. At this period my servant appears. I ask him if he is not all right? He says he is, but seems to me all wrong; I had seen amongst the last distinguishable Objects a young girl - his wife - try ing to wave her handkerchief, but failing, and break ing down in a passion of tears! Alack! Some whom I have left at home know the time of our departure, and are perhaps no better employed.
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