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เกมตกปลาในไซ่ง่อน 338 "South, sir," replied the quartermaster. "Precisely so; and you will readily see that I am not exactly in a position to act in any other manner, as I cannot go back on deck and deliver them in person, for your officers would be prejudiced against me, and might be disposed to rebel against my authority." "Are you a Russian?" asked the commander, inclined to laugh at this singular name of one of the proscribed race. "Does he talk at all?" 153 "He is what the Yankees call smart, and I know he is all that," added Corny. "What do you suppose has become of him? When Captain Battleton sent for him in order to let the commodore see us both together, he could not be found. As you know, all three vessels were very thoroughly searched without any success."