{"product_id":"2940013301283","title":"The Lonely Island","description":"CHAPTER ONE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE REFUGE OF THE MUTINEERS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MUTINY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a profoundly calm and most beautiful evening towards the end of the\u003cbr\u003elast century, a ship lay becalmed on the fair bosom of the Pacific\u003cbr\u003eOcean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough there was nothing piratical in the aspect of the ship--if we\u003cbr\u003eexcept her guns--a few of the men who formed her crew might have been\u003cbr\u003eeasily mistaken for roving buccaneers.  There was a certain swagger in\u003cbr\u003ethe gait of some, and a sulky defiance on the brow of others, which told\u003cbr\u003epowerfully of discontent from some cause or other, and suggested the\u003cbr\u003eidea that the peaceful aspect of the sleeping sea was by no means\u003cbr\u003ereflected in the breasts of the men.  They were all British seamen, but\u003cbr\u003edisplayed at that time none of the well-known hearty off-hand rollicking\u003cbr\u003echaracteristics of the Jack-tar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is natural for man to rejoice in sunshine.  His sympathy with cats in\u003cbr\u003ethis respect is profound and universal.  Not less deep and wide is his\u003cbr\u003ediscord with the moles and bats.  Nevertheless, there was scarcely a man\u003cbr\u003eon board of that ship on the evening in question who vouchsafed even a\u003cbr\u003epassing glance at a sunset which was marked by unwonted splendour.  The\u003cbr\u003evessel slowly rose and sank on a scarce perceptible ocean-swell in the\u003cbr\u003ecentre of a great circular field of liquid glass, on whose undulations\u003cbr\u003ethe sun gleamed in dazzling flashes, and in whose depths were reflected\u003cbr\u003ethe fantastic forms, snowy lights, and pearly shadows of cloudland.  In\u003cbr\u003eordinary circumstances such an evening might have raised the thoughts of\u003cbr\u003eordinary men to their Creator, but the circumstances of the men on board\u003cbr\u003eof that vessel were not ordinary--very much the reverse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No, Bill McCoy,\" muttered one of the sailors, who sat on the breach of\u003cbr\u003ea gun near the forecastle, \"I've bin flogged twice for merely growlin',\u003cbr\u003ewhich is an Englishman's birthright, an' I won't stand it no longer.  A\u003cbr\u003epretty pass things has come to when a man mayn't growl without tastin'\u003cbr\u003ethe cat; but if Captain Bligh won't let me growl, I'll treat him to a\u003cbr\u003eroar that'll make him cock his ears an' wink six times without\u003cbr\u003espeakin'.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145623552240,"sku":"2940013301283","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013301283_p0.jpg?v=1763579103","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013301283","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}