[COPY] Day 41. Visitors from another realm
It was Spanish Paula who first saw the dolphins. Here she is…
The day after the spotting, I encounter her as she stops steering. I’m very interested in her, since the word is she was once captured by pirates, a thing which - in Melville’s phrase - ‘rouses my whole curiosity’. I’m dying to get her to tell the whole story, but she’s given no sign she’s happy to do it. Paula is a very generous and sweet-natured person, I’ve found, but also proud person: she won’t do a thing, unless she wants to.
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