On one occasion Captain Vibert was investigating alone down in he hold of the Sobraon when he happened ty open a door, Taimedistely n great crowd of rats, large, fleet-foote], and of ferocious mien, made for the unlucky captain in one savage rush, and to escape the tae of Bishop Butte he felt it h's duty to turn and run, Hunger had pat the taste of the cannibal into the pal: of the brutes, and they would most certainly have made a mer y meal off Captrin Vivert, uniform and all, if be hit tarried with them,
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