She sighed and shivered against him. Now a party of seamen waited on the foredeck, armed withbuckets of the caustic substance. The Gull's fire had knocked great raw wounds in the timbers. At this moment three large vesselswere there, and he fastened his attention on them.
The Great Mogul's brother, the Maharajah Sadiq Khan Jahan, sat in thecentre on a pile of silk cushions. Schreuder stood alone in the stern andlooked up at the frigate with his cold, unrelenting expression. The Dutch called it Robben Island,for that was their name for the thousands of seals that infested it. He stitched the folds of the hide around him so theywould dry into an iron-hard sarcophagus.
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