Chapter 5

           Butmyfirstnightinthehunters’steeragewasalsomylast.NextdayJohansen,thenewmate,wasroutedfromthecabinbyWolfLarsen,andsentintothesteeragetosleepthereafter,whileItookpossessionofthetinycabinstate-room,which,onthefirstdayofthevoyage,hadalreadyhadtwooccupants.Thereasonforthischangewasquicklylearnedbythehunters,andbecamethecauseofadealofgrumblingontheirpart.ItseemedthatJohansen,inhissleep,livedovereachnighttheeventsoftheday.HisincessanttalkingandshoutingandbellowingofordershadbeentoomuchforWolfLarsen,whohadaccordinglyfoistedthenuisanceuponhishunters.

           Afterasleeplessnight,Iaroseweakandinagony,tohobblethroughmyseconddayontheGhost.ThomasMugridgeroutedmeoutathalf-pastfive,muchinthefashionthatBillSykesmusthaveroutedouthisdog;butMr.Mugridge’sbrutalitytomewaspaidbackinkindandwithinterest.Theunnecessarynoisehemade(Ihadlainwide-eyedthewholenight)musthaveawakenedoneofthehunters;foraheavyshoewhizzedthroughthesemi-darkness,andMr.Mugridge,withasharphowlofpain,humblybeggedeverybody’spardon.Lateron,inthegalley,Inoticedthathisearwasbruisedandswollen.Itneverwententirelybacktoitsnormalshape,andwascalleda"cauliflowerear"bythesailors.

           Thedaywasfilledwithmiserablevariety.Ihadtakenmydriedclothesdownfromthegalleythenightbefore,andthefirstthingIdidwastoexchangethecook’sgarmentsforthem.Ilookedformypurse.

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