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On the same morning that Anthony was slashing his way through the forests toward Gallegos, Captain Bittern of the good ship Unicorn was walking the quarter-deck with a faster tread and shorter turn than usual. He had been lying--and stewing--in the Rio Pongo for over six weeks, and he was thoroughly fed-up with the landscape just below Gallegos and immediately opposite Bangalang. With this view of things, a thoroughly monotonous one, the entire ship's company was for once in exact agreement with their captain.
Only once since they had arrived in the Rio Pongo to fetch home their new owner--about whom rumours were rife in the foc's'le--had the prospect from the deck been changed, and then only enough to shift the angles of things in the view very slightly. Yet this change, to the eyes of the captain at least, had been quite important.