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... so that I thought when I came to the third pair I should find his legs made of stockings), and after bathing his feet in hot water, of which there was a kettleful, I rubbed them with hot brandy as hard as I could chafe.
... and good as Captain Mendoza, and good as the cabin boy Fernando Prado; for we pirates are republicans, sir, we know no social distinctions save those we order for the convenience of working ship. ... That is the pirate's philosophy.
By: William Clark Russell (1844-1911) Sailing adventure with storms, icebergs, shipwrecks, treasure, and the reawakening of a pirate frozen in suspended animation for nearly fifty years
The old pirate, frozen for fifty years, begins to describe a treasure before slowly falling into madness, endangering Rodney's survival and escape back to civilization.