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Now, tell me, do you think you were right in being so revengeful, when you were in your own country? inquired Jack. I tink so den, Massa Easy; sometimes when my blood boil, I tink so nowoder time, I no know what to tinkbut when a man love very much, he hate very much. But you are now a Christian, Mesty. I hear all that your people say, replied the negro, and it make me tinkI no longer believe in fetish, anyhow. Our religion tells us to love our enemies. Yes, I heard parson say datbut den what we do with our friends, Massa Easy? Love them too. I no understand dat, Massa EasyI love you, because you good, and treat me wellMr. Vigors, he bully, and treat me illhow possible to love him? By de power, I hate him, and wish I had him skull. You tink little Massa Gosset love him? No, replied Jack, laughing, Im afraid that he would like to have his skull as well as you, Mestybut at all events we must try and forgive those who injure us. Then, Massa Easy, I tink so tootoo much revenge very badit very easy to hate, but not very easy to forgiveso I tink that if a man forgive, he had more soul in him, he more of a man. After all, thought Jack, Mesty is about as good a Christian as most people. What that? cried Mesty, looking out of the cabin windowAh! dn drunken dogsthey set fire to tent. Jack looked, and perceived that the tent on shore was in flames. I tink these cold nights cool their courage anyhow, observed MestyMassa Easy, you see they soon ask permission to come on board. Jack thought so too, and was most anxious to be off, for, on looking into the lockers in the stateroom, he had found a chart of the Mediterranean, which he had studied very attentivelyhe had found out the rock of Gibraltar, and had traced the Harpys course up to Cape de Gatte, and thence to Tarragonaand, after a while had summoned Mesty to a cabinet council. See, Mesty, said Jack, I begin to make it out; here is Gibraltar, and Cape de Gatte, and Tarragonait was hereabout we were when we took the ship, and, if you recollect, we had passed Cape de Gatte two days before we were blown off from the land, so that we had gone about twelve inches, and had only four more to go. Yes, Massa Easy, I see all dat. Well, then, we were blown off shore by the wind, and must of course have come down this way; and here you see are three little islands, called Zaffarine Islands, and with no names of towns upon them, and therefore uninhabited; and you see they lie just like the islands we are anchored among nowwe must be at the Zaffarine Islandsand only six inches from Gibraltar. I see, Massa Easy, dat all rightbut six debbelish long inches. |
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