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‘So great a coincidence as that’ I answered‘would be too much to swallow. It is not only her name I now recognizebut every line of her hullevery detail of her rigevery move she makes under meall of which so pleased me when she was brand-new and please me yet. I would know this ship no matter what her nameeven if she were twice as weatherbeaten as she is.’ ‘Yet you did notat ?rs’ the merchant reminded me. ‘Therefore recognize your captain as wellfor he is no other than your servant Kasˉ?m of Basraas seasoned by the leagues gone under his keel as are your Zahir and its owner. I have sailed with him for a full year now and have seen seafaring age him as it has aged me. And youmy good Kasˉ?m’ he then advised the captain‘mus swallow that this battered derelic is indeed your maser Sindbad the Sailorwhom I met not many years ago on the Island of the Valley of Serpents and Diamondswhere like myself he was for a time in the mutton-and-gemsone trade and where he told me the moraled sory of his maroonment. I will vouch that both of you are who you say you areas am I and as is this ship.’ “Wellthe truth is that I didn’t recognize either this peac factory brand shoes salesemaker |
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