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here the valleys, like trenches, gloom narrow and black,
- and underneath, skirting the open fiords,-
- it's in places like these human beings abide.
[Looks at the CAPTAIN.]
- They build far apart in this country.
THE CAPTAIN
- Ay;
- few are the dwellings and far between.
PEER
- Shall we get in by day-break?
THE CAPTAIN
- Thereabouts;
- if we don't have too dirty a night altogether.
PEER
- It grows thick in the west.
THE CAPTAIN
- It does so.
PEER
- Stop a bit!
- You might put me in mind when we make up accounts-
- I'm inclined, as the phrase goes, to do a good turn
- to the crew-
THE CAPTAIN
- I thank you.
PEER
- It won't be much.
- I have dug for gold, and lost what I found;-
