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There were nine men left in the standing room, including the gentleman in black; they were coarse and rough-looking persons, and not one of them appeared to be the social peer of him who had condemned the firing upon the boat. The skipper remained at the tiller of the boat, and he looked as though he might have negro blood in his veins, though he was not black, and probably was an octoroon. He said nothing and did nothing, and had not used a musket when the others fired. He 216 behaved as though he intended to be entirely neutral. A few drops of negro blood in his veins was enough to condemn him to inferiority with the rude fellows on board of the sloop, though his complexion was lighter than that of any of his companions.
āļāļĩāđ āđāļāđāļ āļŠāļļāļĄāļŦāļąāļ§ "All right; get him up if you can. Is he able to walk?" "I believe you; they be mixed if you be the captain when I done seen him on deck just now." Lieutenant Fourchon pressed the hand of the doctor, and left the casemate with him. "With the evidence before you, I do not see how you could have decided otherwise." Christy seated himself and began to consider the strange situation.