... moving figures, clearly seen now, in the shape of a villainous-looking party of about a dozen well-armed men, clothed sailor fashion and graduated in colour from the sun-tanned skin of a white through the swarthiness of the Malay and Mulatto to the black of the East Indian and the intense ... — Hunting the Skipper - The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop • George Manville Fenn
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