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Captain Image prided himself on turning out fine active West African mates. It is true that a good many officers succumbed to his treatment, but the survivors were notorious for being able to get through more work in a given time, and for giving way less to disease, than any set of mates on the Coast. As the Liverpool office will testify.
But the new Fourth he had shipped on the _M'poso_ (vice a predecessor smashed under a surf boat on the beach of the Grand Bassa) frankly puzzled him.