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 here the valleys, like trenches, gloom narrow and black,
 * and underneath, skirting the open fiords,-
 * it's in places like these human beings abide.

[Looks at the CAPTAIN.]
 * They build far apart in this country.

THE CAPTAIN
 * Ay;
 * few are the dwellings and far between.

PEER
 * Shall we get in by day-break?

THE CAPTAIN
 * Thereabouts;
 * if we don't have too dirty a night altogether.

PEER
 * It grows thick in the west.

THE CAPTAIN
 * It does so.

PEER
 * Stop a bit!
 * You might put me in mind when we make up accounts-
 * I'm inclined, as the phrase goes, to do a good turn
 * to the crew-

THE CAPTAIN
 * I thank you.

PEER
 * It won't be much.
 * I have dug for gold, and lost what I found;-