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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe

CHAPTER 18
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At the great guns their wonder was redoubled.

They approached them with every mark of the profoundest reverence and awe, but forbore to examine them minutely.
There were two large mirrors in the cabin, and here was the acme of their amazement.

Too-wit was the first to approach them, and he had got in the middle of the cabin, with his face to one and his back to the other, before he fairly perceived them.

Upon raising his eyes and seeing his reflected self in the glass, I thought the savage would go mad; but, upon turning short round to make a retreat, and beholding himself a second time in the opposite direction, I was afraid he would expire upon the spot.

No persuasion could prevail upon him to take another look; throwing himself upon the floor, with his face buried in his hands, he remained thus until we were obliged to drag him upon deck.
The whole of the savages were admitted on board in this manner, twenty at a time, Too-wit being suffered to remain during the entire period.
We saw no disposition to thievery among them, nor did we miss a single article after their departure.


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