Crossword-Solution: TAPAGE 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

How did this Francois Tapage find himself in the service of the engineer? By what chain of accidents had he become one of the crew of the “Albatross?” We can hardly say; but in any case be spoke English like a Yankee.

That morning Tom Turner was talking to the cook, Tapage, and to a question of his replied, “Yes; we shall be about forty-eight hours over the Caspian.” “Good!” said the cook; “Then we can have some fishing.” “Just so.” They were to remain for forty-eight hours over the Caspian, which is some six hundred and twenty-five miles long and two hundred wide, because the speed of the “Albatross” had been much reduced, and while the fishing was going on she would be stopped altogether.

But all hands set to work to clear the deck, and the locusts were thrown over except a few hundred kept by Tapage for his larder.

Tapage was the only one to mark the event, and he did so by pouring a pint of water down Frycollin’s neck.

Now there were armies of penguins and myriads of birds; and, when the “Albatross” turned on her electric lamps the guillemots, ducks, and geese came crowding on board enough to fill Tapage’s larder a hundred times and more.