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Bloody Bill is communicative and sagacious -- Unpleasant prospects -- Retrospective meditations interrupted by volcanic agency -- The pirates negotiate with a Fiji chief -- Various etceteras that are calculated to surprise and horrify.
It was many days after the events just narrated ere I recovered a little of my wonted spirits. I could not shake off the feeling for a long time that I was in a frightful dream, and the sight of our captain filled me with so much horror that I kept out of his way as much as my duties about the cabin would permit. Fortunately he took so little notice of me that he did not observe my changed feelings towards him, otherwise it might have been worse for me.