Whatever a sailor purchases is taken from his subsequent earnings on the sealing grounds for, as it is with the hunters so it is with the boat-pullers and steerers-in the place of wages they receive a “lay,” a rate of so much per skin for every skin captured in their particular boat.īut of Johnson’s grumbling at the slop-chest I knew nothing, so that what I witnessed came with a shock of sudden surprise. The slop-chest is a sort of miniature dry-goods store which is carried by all sealing schooners and which is stocked with articles peculiar to the needs of the sailors. Johnson, it seems, bought a suit of oilskins from the slop-chest and found them to be of greatly inferior quality. He it was, I know, that carried some of Johnson’s hasty talk to Wolf Larsen. He has been attempting to curry favour and reinstate himself in the good graces of the captain by carrying tales of the men forward. Thomas Mugridge is a sneak, a spy, an informer. The relations among the men, strained and made tense by feuds, quarrels and grudges, were in a state of unstable equilibrium, and evil passions flared up in flame like prairie-grass. From cabin to forecastle it seems to have broken out like a contagion. The last twenty-four hours have witnessed a carnival of brutality. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser.
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