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you 'll give us a shirt off that table-cloth ? '' `` Ay , ay , you can have one corner of it ; or for that matter , ye can take the full half , Nick ; but I do n't see that we go off to the ship any richer than we landed , unless you may muster she-cattle among your prize-money . '' `` No richer ! '' interrupted a waggish young sailor , who had been hitherto a silent listener to the conversation between his older and more calculating shipmates ; `` I think we are set up for a cruise in them seas where the day watches last six months ; do n't you see we have caught a double allowance of midnight ! '' While speaking , he laid his hands on the bare and woolly heads of Colonel Howard 's two black slaves , who were moving near him , both occupied in mournful forebodings on the results that were to flow from this unexpected loss of their liberty . `` Slew your faces this way , gentlemen , '' he added ; `` there ; do n't you think that a sight to put out the binnacle lamps ? there 's darkness visible for ye ! ''