Book 1
Book 1 - Chapter 1. Captain Cai Hauls Ashore
_ BOOK I CHAPTER I. CAPTAIN CAI HAULS ASHORE
"Well, _that‘s_ over!"
Captain Caius Hocken, from the stern-sheets of the boat bearing him shoreward, slewed himself half-about for a look back at his vessel, the _Hannah Hoo_ barquentine. This was a ticklish operation, because he wore a tall silk hat and had allowed his hair to grow during the passage home--St. Michael‘s to Liverpool with a cargo of oranges, and from Liverpool around to Troy in charge of a tug.
"I‘m wonderin‘ what ‘twill feel like when it comes to my turn," mused his mate Mr Tregaskis, likewise pensively contemplating the _Hannah Hoo_. "Not to be sure, sir, as I‘d compare the two cases； me bein‘ a married man, and you--as they say--with the ship for wife all these years, and children too."
"I never liked the life, notwithstandin‘," confessed the Captain. "And I‘ll be fifty come Michaelmas. Isn‘ that enough?"
"Nobody likes it, sir； not at our age. But

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