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sighted by her Majesty’s cruiser Blunderbuss and taken on board; and none too soon, as I’d finished my last cocoanut.

“‘Admiral,’ says I to the captain. ‘you see before you a poor unfortunate mariner.’ ‘Belay,’ says the skipper, ‘isn’t your nameBenjamin?’ ‘Admiral,’ I answers him astonished, ‘Benjamin it is, and so I won’t deceive you.’ ‘Then, Ben, tip us your flipper,’ says he, ‘and glad I am to see you, my hearty, safe and sound.’”