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`` I du n no , '' replied McGuffey . `` It 's pretty hard to distinguish between niggers and folks that goes to work an ' eats with 'em . '' `` Mac , '' said Captain Scraggs severely , `` you 're prejudiced . '' At 6:30 o'clock of the morning of the day following the frightful experience of Commodore Gibney and Captain Scraggs with the cannibals of Kandavu , the members of the _ Maggie II _ Syndicate faced each other across the breakfast table with appetites in no wise diminished by the exciting events of the preceding day . Captain Scraggs appeared with a lump on the back of his head as big as a goose egg . The doughty commodore had a cut over his right eye , and the top of his sinful head was so sore , where the earthenware pot had struck him , that even the simple operation of winking his bloodshot eyes was productive of pain . About a teaspoonful of Kandavu real estate had also been blown into Mr. Gibney 's classic features when the shells from the Maxim-Vickers gun exploded in his immediate neighbourhood , and as he naïvely remarked to Bartholomew McGuffey , he was in luck to be alive .