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Mare Nostrum (Our Sea)

CHAPTER II
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These were like maritime roadsteads where boats might anchor completely concealed from view.

There the galleys of the Berbers had often hidden, in order to fall unexpectedly upon a nearby village.
In one of these caves, on a rocky pedestal, Ulysses often saw a heap of bundles.
"Well, now, what of it!" expostulated the doctor.

"Every man must gain his living as best he can." When they stumbled upon a solitary custom house officer resting upon his gun and looking out toward the sea, the doctor would offer him a cigar and give him medical advice if he were sick.

"Poor men! so badly paid!"...

But his sympathies were always going out to the others--to the enemies of the law.


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