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He cut `` locality '' in two with an emphatic pause . It was a good word . He was pleased with himself for thinking of it . He went on again : `` Now -- since noon , this big island -- '' `` Carimata , Shaw , '' interrupted Lingard . `` Aye , sir ; Carimata -- I mean . I must say -- being a stranger hereabouts -- I have n't got the run of those -- '' He was going to say `` names '' but checked himself and said , `` appellations , '' instead , sounding every syllable lovingly . `` Having for these last fifteen years , '' he continued , `` sailed regularly from London in East-Indiamen , I am more at home over there -- in the Bay . ''