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Panel 1 [Shot of the boat prow pressing into sand as it comes ashore]

Panel 2 [Shot of the company getting out. Barzillai takes Adelaide’s hand as she hitches up her dress to step over the bulwarks. Josué is springing out exuberantly. Ezra is standing, reaching for one of the oil barrels. Charles is handing Jackson his crutch as they both make move to step out. In the foreground a few of the townspeople approaching their boat carrying bushels of produce, no stranger to whalers making provision stops. Barzillai has one hand waved in greeting.]

BARZILLAI:
Olá.

LOCALS:
Olá!

BARZILLAI:
From the whale ship.

Panel 3 [Captain looks to Josue, who steps in front of him, arm's outstretched]

BARZILLAI:
Cabral, see what you can get for us.

JOSUÉ:
Amigos! Boa tarde! O que vós tendes para permuta?

Panel 4 [A man and a woman show the bushels they’re carrying to Josue. They’re full of oranges and sweet potatoes

WOMAN:
Laranjas e batatas.

MAN:
Nós lhe daremos doze cestas por um barril.

Panel 5 [Josué looks back at Barzillai, who has his arms folded]

JOSUÉ:
They say a full barrel of oil for twelve bushels.

BARZILLAI:
Nonsense. Tell them a quarter measure for that.
And ask them where we can find a doctor.

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Page 166
Posted on February 19, 2025 by Silas

Hagglin time!

3 thoughts on “Page 166”

  1. draconicrose

    That does sound like pretty old timey Portuguese!

  2. eishiya

    Gah, I ended up over a year behind because I thought the comic was on hiatus, but it turns out the update checker I used got confused when the layout changed. I bought a book of whalemen’s songs recently and it made me think of this comic, so I checked manually. Very happy to see I was just behind~ (Though I see the current hiatus is a bit on the long side, hope everything’s alright!)

    For future layout changes, consider adding rel=”next” to the next page link, it’s a standard, invisible way to mark a link as going to the next page in a sequence, and it’s something that can stay consistent no matter how you choose to structure or style the website.

    1. Silas

      Apologies for the update confusion! I’m not technologically inclined at all, unfortunately. Updates will be a bit slower and there probably won’t be anything til August, but I’m hoping to get back to working on this more regularly again!

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