“John Whipple Did Not Allow His Anger At Such Treatment To Obscure His Judgment. In Years Of Trading Around The Pacific He Had Often Met Obstinate Men And The Cruel Situations Which They Produce, And He Had Learned That In Such Confrontations His Only Chance Of Winning Lay In Doing Exactly What In Conscience Ought To Be Done. It Was By Reliance Upon This Conviction That He Had Quietly Made His Way In Such Disparate Jungles As Valparaiso, Batavia, Singapore And Honolulu.”
— James A. Michener —
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