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 | | In contrast, Trelawny only records adventures within the realm of nature; but when he arrives at his rendezvous with De Ruyter, the leader of the corsairs, he is met with a jest which may have suggested the supernatural polar journey of Poe's ghost ship. |
 | | Trelawny battles with an exceptional, though not supernatural, horse, finding "a fellow feeling for his independent spirit," becoming "a show-lion to the sober natives," and, finally, coming to an understanding in which man and horse appear "together in public, like decent married people" (p. |
 | | Trelawny's assassination of his father's raven, the tyrannic guardian of the family garden, may bear some relation to "The Black Cat": both animals are mutilated and ultimately destroyed in the same manner (9). |
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