The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea (1949)
“In front of it the ground had been levelled for nearly a mile, and here and there, like tall beeches in a deer-park, grew stately ocean-trees. Behind the cavern were stables for a hundred finback-whales to mount his sailors, and beyond the stables were great byres that housed two hundred milk-whales—and now, early in the morning, forty mermaids sitting on whalebone-stools were milking them into silver-gleaming nautilus-shells. For every morning, before breakfast, Davy Jones would drink a quart ...of whale’s milk into which half a pint of the best Jamaica rum had been carefully stirred, and the milk had to be fresh. Most of his sailors began the day in the same manner, so a great deal of milk was required, and the milkmaids had to get up early.
But this morning—when Timothy and Hew and the two Powder Monkeys were swimming fast towards his court through the last thirty-five leagues of their voyage—this morning was no ordinary morning, as anyone could see for himself who happened to walk into the great hall of the cavern.MoreLess
But this morning—when Timothy and Hew and the two Powder Monkeys were swimming fast towards his court through the last thirty-five leagues of their voyage—this morning was no ordinary morning, as anyone could see for himself who happened to walk into the great hall of the cavern.MoreLess
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