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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
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Captain Adam Seaborn
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Being
now
at
sea,
Mr.
Slim
was
permitted
to
go
at
large
as
usual.
But
alas!
I
had
melancholy
cause
to
regret
this
lenity.
Having
one
day
spread
my
Symzonian
manuscripts
on
the
after
lockers,
to
dry
away
the
mould
which,
from
the
humid
atmosphere
of
the
external
world,
had
accumulated
on
them,
I
took
a
walk
on
the
quarter-deck.
On
my
return
to
my
cabin,
I
was
overwhelmed
with
consternation
and
alarm
at
the
disappearance
of
my
books
and
papers,
which
were
all
gone
except
my
journal
and
volumes
of
extracts
and
translations.
I
immediately
summoned
the
steward,
but
he
could
give
no
account
of
them.
He
had
not
been
in
my
cabin
during
my
absence.
The
cabin
and
state-room
were
searched
in
vain.
The
manuscripts
were
gone!
A
man
who
had
been
working
aloft,
declared
that
he
saw
them
going
astern
soon
after
I
came
on
deck;
and
Will
Mackerel,
who
was
asleep
in
his
birth,
was
positive
that
he
saw
the
shadow
of
Slim
passing
from
the
direction
of
my
cabin
towards
his
state-room.
There
was
great
cause
to
suspect
that
Slim
had
been
into
my
cabin,
and
thrown
them
all
out
of
the
windows
to
gratify
his
inveterate
malice:
but
there
was
no
help
for
it--there
was
no
proof.
A
monkey,
which,
out
of
a
foolish
partiality
to
Jack
Whiffle,
I
had
permitted
him
to
bring
on
board,
and
which
visited
every
part
of
the
ship,
and
was
very
mischievous,
might
have
done
it.
They
were
irrevocably
lost;
and
though
I
deplored
them
more
than
I
should
the
loss
of
the
mainmast,
I
was
not
without
consolation.
I
had
read
most
of
them
attentively,
and
being
favoured
with
a
very
retentive
memory,
I
had
treasured
up
their
contents.
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