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What
was
it
?
Indolence
or
what
?
That
old
skipper
must
have
been
growing
lazy
for
years
.
They
all
grew
lazy
out
East
here
(
Sterne
was
very
conscious
of
his
own
unimpaired
activity
)
;
they
got
slack
all
over
.
But
he
towered
very
erect
on
the
bridge
;
and
quite
low
by
his
side
,
as
you
see
a
small
child
looking
over
the
edge
of
a
table
,
the
battered
soft
hat
and
the
brown
face
of
the
Serang
peeped
over
the
white
canvas
screen
of
the
rail
.
No
doubt
the
Malay
was
standing
back
,
nearer
to
the
wheel
;
but
the
great
disparity
of
size
in
close
association
amused
Sterne
like
the
observation
of
a
bizarre
fact
in
nature
.
They
were
as
queer
fish
out
of
the
sea
as
any
in
it
.
He
saw
Captain
Whalley
turn
his
head
quickly
to
speak
to
his
Serang
;
the
wind
whipped
the
whole
white
mass
of
the
beard
sideways
.
He
would
be
directing
the
chap
to
look
at
the
compass
for
him
,
or
what
not
.
Of
course
.
Too
much
trouble
to
step
over
and
see
for
himself
.
Sterne
's
scorn
for
that
bodily
indolence
which
overtakes
white
men
in
the
East
increased
on
reflection
.
Some
of
them
would
be
utterly
lost
if
they
had
n't
all
these
natives
at
their
beck
and
call
;
they
grew
perfectly
shameless
about
it
too
.
He
was
not
of
that
sort
,
thank
God
!
It
was
n't
in
him
to
make
himself
dependent
for
his
work
on
any
shriveled-up
little
Malay
like
that
.
As
if
one
could
ever
trust
a
silly
native
for
anything
in
the
world
!
But
that
fine
old
man
thought
differently
,
it
seems
.
There
they
were
together
,
never
far
apart
;
a
pair
of
them
,
recalling
to
the
mind
an
old
whale
attended
by
a
little
pilot-fish
.
The
fancifulness
of
the
comparison
made
him
smile
.
A
whale
with
an
inseparable
pilot-fish
!
That
's
what
the
old
man
looked
like
;
for
it
could
not
be
said
he
looked
like
a
shark
,
though
Mr.
Massy
had
called
him
that
very
name
.
But
Mr.
Massy
did
not
mind
what
he
said
in
his
savage
fits
.
Sterne
smiled
to
himself
--
and
gradually
the
ideas
evoked
by
the
sound
,
by
the
imagined
shape
of
the
word
pilot-fish
;
the
ideas
of
aid
,
of
guidance
needed
and
received
,
came
uppermost
in
his
mind
:
the
word
pilot
awakened
the
idea
of
trust
,
of
dependence
,
the
idea
of
welcome
,
clear-eyed
help
brought
to
the
seaman
groping
for
the
land
in
the
dark
:
groping
blindly
in
fogs
:
feeling
their
way
in
the
thick
weather
of
the
gales
that
,
filling
the
air
with
a
salt
mist
blown
up
from
the
sea
,
contract
the
range
of
sight
on
all
sides
to
a
shrunken
horizon
that
seems
within
reach
of
the
hand
.
A
pilot
sees
better
than
a
stranger
,
because
his
local
knowledge
,
like
a
sharper
vision
,
completes
the
shapes
of
things
hurriedly
glimpsed
;
penetrates
the
veils
of
mist
spread
over
the
land
by
the
storms
of
the
sea
;
defines
with
certitude
the
outlines
of
a
coast
lying
under
the
pall
of
fog
,
the
forms
of
landmarks
half
buried
in
a
starless
night
as
in
a
shallow
grave
.
He
recognizes
because
he
already
knows
.
It
is
not
to
his
far-reaching
eye
but
to
his
more
extensive
knowledge
that
the
pilot
looks
for
certitude
;
for
this
certitude
of
the
ship
's
position
on
which
may
depend
a
man
's
good
fame
and
the
peace
of
his
conscience
,
the
justification
of
the
trust
deposited
in
his
hands
,
with
his
own
life
too
,
which
is
seldom
wholly
his
to
throw
away
,
and
the
humble
lives
of
others
rooted
in
distant
affections
,
perhaps
,
and
made
as
weighty
as
the
lives
of
kings
by
the
burden
of
the
awaiting
mystery
.
The
pilot
's
knowledge
brings
relief
and
certitude
to
the
commander
of
a
ship
;
the
Serang
,
however
,
in
his
fanciful
suggestion
of
a
pilot-fish
attending
a
whale
,
could
not
in
any
way
be
credited
with
a
superior
knowledge
.
Why
should
he
have
it
?
These
two
men
had
come
on
that
run
together
--
the
white
and
the
brown
--
on
the
same
day
:
and
of
course
a
white
man
would
learn
more
in
a
week
than
the
best
native
would
in
a
month
.
He
was
made
to
stick
to
the
skipper
as
though
he
were
of
some
use
--
as
the
pilot-fish
,
they
say
,
is
to
the
whale
.
But
how
--
it
was
very
marked
--
how
?
A
pilot-fish
--
a
pilot
--
a
...
But
if
not
superior
knowledge
then
...
Sterne
's
discovery
was
made
.
It
was
repugnant
to
his
imagination
,
shocking
to
his
ideas
of
honesty
,
shocking
to
his
conception
of
mankind
.
This
enormity
affected
one
's
outlook
on
what
was
possible
in
this
world
:
it
was
as
if
for
instance
the
sun
had
turned
blue
,
throwing
a
new
and
sinister
light
on
men
and
nature
.
Really
in
the
first
moment
he
had
felt
sickish
,
as
though
he
had
got
a
blow
below
the
belt
:
for
a
second
the
very
color
of
the
sea
seemed
changed
--
appeared
queer
to
his
wandering
eye
;
and
he
had
a
passing
,
unsteady
sensation
in
all
his
limbs
as
though
the
earth
had
started
turning
the
other
way
.
