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11 - Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Stories of Pirates by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Stories of Pirates

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  Speaker 1: Mc cook Jefferson's statement. In the month of December in
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  Speaker 1: the year eighteen seventy three, the British ship de Gracia
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  Speaker 1: steered into Gibraltar, having until the direct brigantine Mary Celeste,
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  Speaker 1: which have been picked up in latitude thirty eight degrees
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  Speaker 1: forty minutes longitude seventeen degrees fifteen minutes west. There were
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  Speaker 1: several circumstances in connection with the condition and appearance of
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  Speaker 1: the abandoned vessel, which excited considerable comment at the time
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  Speaker 1: and aroused a curiosity which had never been satisfied. What
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  Speaker 1: these circumstances were was summed up in an able article
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  Speaker 1: which appeared in the Gibraltar Gazette. The curious can find
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  Speaker 1: it in the issue for January fourth, eighteen seventy four,
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  Speaker 1: unless my memory deceives me. For the benefit of those, however,
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  Speaker 1: who may be unable to refer to the paper in question,
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  Speaker 1: I shall subjoin a few extracts which touch upon the
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  Speaker 1: leading features of the case. We have ourselves, says the
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  Speaker 1: anonymous writer of the Gazette. Bit over the derelict Mary Celeste,
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  Speaker 1: and if closely questioned the officers of the day Gracia
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  Speaker 1: on every point which might throw light on the affair.
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  Speaker 1: They are of the opinion that she has been abandoned
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  Speaker 1: several days or perhaps weeks before being picked up. The
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  Speaker 1: official log, which was found in the cabin stated the
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  Speaker 1: vessel's sail from Boston to Lisbon starting upon October sixteenth.
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  Speaker 1: It is, however, more imperfectly kept and a fourth little information.
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  Speaker 1: There is no reference to rough weather, and indeed the
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  Speaker 1: state of the vessel's paint and rigging excludes the idea
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  Speaker 1: that she was abandoned for any such reason. She is
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  Speaker 1: perfectly water tight, No signs of a struggle or of
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  Speaker 1: violence are to be detected, and there is absolutely nothing
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  Speaker 1: to account for the disappearance of the crew. There are
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  Speaker 1: several indications that a lady was present on board, a
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  Speaker 1: sewing machine found in the cabin, and some articles of
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  Speaker 1: female attire. These probably belonged to the captain's wife, who
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  Speaker 1: was mentioned in the log as having accompanied her husband.
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  Speaker 1: As an instance of the mildness of the weather, it
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  Speaker 1: may be remarked that a bobbin of silk was found
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  Speaker 1: standing upon a sewing machine. Though the least roll of
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  Speaker 1: the vessel would have precipitated to the floor, the boat
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  Speaker 1: were intact and slung upon the debts, and the cargo,
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  Speaker 1: consisting of tallow and American clocks, was untouched. An old
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  Speaker 1: fashioned sword of curious workmanship was discovered among some lumber
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  Speaker 1: in the forecastle. When this weapon is said to exhibit
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  Speaker 1: a longitudinal striation of the steel, as if it had
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  Speaker 1: been recently wiped. It has been placed in the hands
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  Speaker 1: of the police and submitted to doctor Monaghan, the Analyst,
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  Speaker 1: for inspection. The result of his examination has not yet
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  Speaker 1: been published. We may remark in conclusion that Captain Dalton
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  Speaker 1: of the day Gracia, an able and intelligent seaman, is
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  Speaker 1: of opinion that the Mary Celeste that may have been
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  Speaker 1: abandoned a considerable distance from the spot at which she
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  Speaker 1: was picked up, since a powerful current runs up in
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  Speaker 1: that latitude from the African coast. He confesses inability, however,
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  Speaker 1: to advance any hypothesis which can reconcile all the facts
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  Speaker 1: of the case. In the utter absence of a clue
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  Speaker 1: or grain of evidence, it is to be feared that
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  Speaker 1: the fate of the crew of the Merry Celeste will
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  Speaker 1: be added to those numerous mysteries of the deep, which
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  Speaker 1: will never be solved until a great day when the
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  Speaker 1: sea shall give up instead. If crime has been committed,
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  Speaker 1: as as much to be suspected, there is little hope
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  Speaker 1: of bringing the perpetrators to justice. I shall supplement this
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  Speaker 1: extract from the Gibralar Gazette by courting a telegram from
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  Speaker 1: Boston which went the round of the English papers and
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  Speaker 1: represented a total amount of information which had been collected
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  Speaker 1: about the marry Celeste. She was, it said, a brigantine
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  Speaker 1: of a hundred and seventy tons burden, and belonged to
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  Speaker 1: White Russell and White Wine, importers of the city. Captain J. W.
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  Speaker 1: Tibbs was an old servant of the firm and was
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  Speaker 1: a man of known ability and tried probity. He was
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  Speaker 1: accompanied by his wife, aged thirty one, and the youngest child,
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  Speaker 1: five years old. The crew consisted of seven hands, including
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  Speaker 1: two colored seamen and a boy. There were three passengers,
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  Speaker 1: one of whom was a well known Brooklyn specialist on consumption,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Habucok Jeffson, who was a distinguished advocate for abolition
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  Speaker 1: in the early days in the movement, and whose pamphlet
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  Speaker 1: entitled where is Thy Brother exercised a strong influence on
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  Speaker 1: public opinion before the war. The other passengers were mister J. Harden,
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  Speaker 1: a writer in the employ of the firm, and mister
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  Speaker 1: Septimus Goring, a half caste gentleman from New Orleans. All
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  Speaker 1: investigations have failed to throw any light upon the fate
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  Speaker 1: of these fourteen human beings. The loss of doctor Jebson
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  Speaker 1: will be felt both in political and scientific circles. I
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  Speaker 1: have here epitomized for the benefit of the public, all
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  Speaker 1: that has been hi thirty known. Considering the Mary Celeste
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  Speaker 1: and her crew for the past ten years have not
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  Speaker 1: in any way helped to elucidate the mystery. I have
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  Speaker 1: now taken up my pen with the intention of telling
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  Speaker 1: all that I know of the ill fated voyage. I
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  Speaker 1: consider that it is a duty which I owe to
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  Speaker 1: society for symptoms which I am familiar with in others
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  Speaker 1: lead me to believe that before many miles, my tongue
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  Speaker 1: in hand may be alike and capable of conveying information.
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  Speaker 1: Let me remark, as a preference to my narrative, that
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  Speaker 1: I am Joseph Habokok Jefson, Doctor of Medicine at the
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  Speaker 1: University of Harvard, an ex consulting physician of the Smartan
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  Speaker 1: Hospital of Brooklyn. Many will doubtless wonder why I have
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  Speaker 1: not proclaimed myself before, and why I have suffered so
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  Speaker 1: many conjectures and surmises to pass unchallenged. Could the ends
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  Speaker 1: of justice have been served in any way by my
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  Speaker 1: revealing the facts in my possession, I should unhesitantly have
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  Speaker 1: done so. It seems to me, however, that there was
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  Speaker 1: no possibility of such a result. And when I attempted,
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  Speaker 1: after the occurrence to state my case to an English official,
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  Speaker 1: I was met with such offensive incredulity. I determined never
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  Speaker 1: again to expose myself to the chance of such an indignity.
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  Speaker 1: I can excuse the discourtesy of the liver Pool magistrate. However,
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  Speaker 1: when I reflect upon the treatment which I received at
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  Speaker 1: the hands of my own relatives, who, though they knew
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  Speaker 1: my unimpeachable character, listened to my statement with an indulgent smile,
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  Speaker 1: as if humoring the delusion of a monomaniac. This slur
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  Speaker 1: upon my veracity led to a quarrel between myself and
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  Speaker 1: John Vanberger, the brother of my wife, and confirmed me
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  Speaker 1: in my resolution to let the matter sink into oblivion,
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  Speaker 1: a determination which I have only altered through my son's
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  Speaker 1: solicitations in order to make the narrative intelligible, I must
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  Speaker 1: run lightly over one or two incidents in my former
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  Speaker 1: life which throw light upon subsequent events. My father, William K. Jeffson,
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  Speaker 1: was a preacher of a sect called Plymouth Brethren, and
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  Speaker 1: was one of the most respected citizens of Lowell. Like
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  Speaker 1: most of the other Puritans of New England, he was
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  Speaker 1: a determined opponent of slavery, and it was from his
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  Speaker 1: lips that I received these lessons which tinged every action
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  Speaker 1: of my life. While I was studying medicine at Harvard University,
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  Speaker 1: I had already made a mark as an advanced abolitionist,
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  Speaker 1: and when after taking my degree I bought a third
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  Speaker 1: share of the practice of Doctor Willis of Brooklyn, I
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  Speaker 1: managed its quite of my professional duties to devote a
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  Speaker 1: considerable time to the cause which I had at heart.
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  Speaker 1: My pamphlet where is Thy Brother Swartzburg Lister and Co.
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  Speaker 1: Eighteen forty nine attracting considerable attention. When the war broke out,
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  Speaker 1: I left Brooklyn and accompanied the hundred and thirteenth New
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  Speaker 1: York Regiment through the campaign. I was present at the
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  Speaker 1: Second Battle of Bulls Run and at the Battle of Kennysburg. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: I was severely wounded at Antietam, and would probably have
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  Speaker 1: perished on the field had it not been for the
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  Speaker 1: kindness of a gentleman named Murray, who had me carried
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  Speaker 1: to his house and provided me with every comfort. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: to his charity and to the nursing which I received
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  Speaker 1: from his black domestics, I was sooning able to get
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  Speaker 1: about the plantation with the help of his thick It
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  Speaker 1: was during this period of convalescence that an incident occurred
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  Speaker 1: which is closely connected my story. Among the most assidious
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  Speaker 1: of the negresses who had watched my couch during my illness,
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  Speaker 1: there was one old crone who appeared to exert considerable
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  Speaker 1: authority over the others. She was exceedingly attentive to me,
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  Speaker 1: and I gathered from the few words that passed between
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  Speaker 1: us that she had heard of me that she was
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  Speaker 1: grateful to me for championing her oppressed race. One day,
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  Speaker 1: as I was sitting alone in the veranda, basking in
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  Speaker 1: the sun and debating about whether I should rejoin Grant's army,
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  Speaker 1: I was surprised to see that this old raach are
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  Speaker 1: hobbling toward me. After looking cautiously around to see that
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  Speaker 1: we were alone. She fumbled in the front of her
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  Speaker 1: dress and produced a small committee's leather bag, which was
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  Speaker 1: hung round her neck by a white cord. Massa, she said,
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  Speaker 1: bending down and croaking the words into my ear me
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  Speaker 1: die soon, me, very old woman, not stay long on
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  Speaker 1: Massa Murray's plantation. You may live a long time yet, Martha,
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  Speaker 1: I answered. You know I am a doctor. If you
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  Speaker 1: feel ill, let me know about it, and I will
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  Speaker 1: try to cure you. No wish to live, wish to die.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to join the heavenly host here. She relapsed
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  Speaker 1: into one of those half heathenness rhapsodies in which negroes indulge.
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  Speaker 1: But Masa, me have one thing, must leave behind me
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  Speaker 1: when I go. No able to take it with me
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  Speaker 1: across the Jordan, that one thing very precious, more precious
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  Speaker 1: and more holy than all things else in the world. Me,
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  Speaker 1: a poor old black woman, have this because my people,
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  Speaker 1: very great people, suppose they was back in the old country.
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  Speaker 1: But you cannot understand the same as black folk could.
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  Speaker 1: My father gave it to me, and his father gave
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  Speaker 1: it to him. But now who shall I give it to?
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  Speaker 1: Poor Martha had no child, no relation, nobody all round
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  Speaker 1: to see black man, very bad man, black woman, very
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  Speaker 1: stupid woman, nobody worthy of the stone. And so I say,
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  Speaker 1: here is Massa Jeffson, who write books and fight for
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  Speaker 1: colored folk. He must be a good man, and he
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  Speaker 1: shall have it, though he is a white man and
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  Speaker 1: never can know what it means or where it came from.
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  Speaker 1: Here the old one fumbled in the camie's leather bag
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  Speaker 1: and pulled out a flatish black stone with a hole
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  Speaker 1: through the middle of it. Here take it, she said,
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  Speaker 1: pressing it into my hand. Take it no harm, never
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  Speaker 1: come from anything good, Keep it safe, never lose it.
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  Speaker 1: And with a warming gesture, the old crone hobbled away
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  Speaker 1: in the same cautious way as she had come, looking
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  Speaker 1: from side to side to see if we had been observed.
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  Speaker 1: I was more amused than impressed by the old woman's earnestness,
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  Speaker 1: and was only prevented from laughing during her oration by
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  Speaker 1: the fear of hurting her feelings. When she was gone,
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  Speaker 1: I took a good look at the stone which she
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  Speaker 1: had given me. It was intensely black, of extreme hardness,
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  Speaker 1: and oval in shape, just such a flat stone as
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  Speaker 1: one would pick up on the seashore if one wished
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  Speaker 1: to throw a long way. It was about three inches
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  Speaker 1: long and an inch and a half broad at the middle,
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  Speaker 1: but round it off at all extremities. The most curious
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  Speaker 1: part about it was several well marked ridges, which ran
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  Speaker 1: its semicircles over its surface, and gave it exactly the
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  Speaker 1: appearance of a human ear. Altogether, I was rather interested
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  Speaker 1: in my new possession, and determined to submit it as
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  Speaker 1: a geological specimen to my friend, Professor Schroder of the
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  Speaker 1: New York Institute, upon the earliest opportunity in the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: I thrust it into my pocket, and, rising from my chair,
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  Speaker 1: started off for a short stroll in the shrubbery, dismissing
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  Speaker 1: the incident from my mind. As my wound had nearly
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  Speaker 1: healed by this time, I took my leave of mister Murray.
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  Speaker 1: Shortly afterwards. The Union armies were everywhere victorious and converging
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  Speaker 1: on Richmond, so that my assistants seemed unnecessary, and I
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  Speaker 1: returned to Brooklyn. There I resumed my practice and married
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  Speaker 1: the second daughter of Josiah Vamberger, the well known wood engraver.
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  Speaker 1: In the course of a few years, it built up
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  Speaker 1: a good connection and acquired concer more reputation in the
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  Speaker 1: treatment of pulmonary complaints. I still kept the old black
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  Speaker 1: stone in my pocket and frequently told the story of
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  Speaker 1: the dramatic way in which I had become possessed of it.
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  Speaker 1: I also kept my resolution of showing it to Professor Schroeder,
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  Speaker 1: who was much interested both by the anecdote and the specimen.
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  Speaker 1: He pronounced it to be a piece of meteoric stone,
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  Speaker 1: and drew my attention to the fact that it resembled
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  Speaker 1: to an ear was not accidental, but that I was
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  Speaker 1: most carefully worked into that cheap A dozen little anatomical
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  Speaker 1: points showed that the worker had been as accurate as
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  Speaker 1: he was skillful. I should not wonder, said the professor,
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  Speaker 1: if it were broken off with some larger statue, though
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  Speaker 1: how such hard material could be so perfectly worked is
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  Speaker 1: more than I can understand. If there is a statue
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  Speaker 1: to correspond, I should like to see it, so I
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  Speaker 1: thought at the time. But I've changed my opinion since
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  Speaker 1: the next seven or eight years of my life were
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  Speaker 1: quiet and uneventful. Summer followed spring, and spring followed winter
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  Speaker 1: without any variation of my duties. As the practice increased,
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  Speaker 1: I admitted J. S. Jackson as a partner, he'd have
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  Speaker 1: one fourth of the profits. The continued strain had told
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  Speaker 1: upon my constitution, however, and I became at last so
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  Speaker 1: unwell that my wife insisted upon my consulting doctor Kavanaugh Smith,
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  Speaker 1: who is my colleague at the Smarriton Hospital. That gentleman
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  Speaker 1: examined me and pronounced the apex of my left lung
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  Speaker 1: to be in a state of consolidation, recommending me the
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  Speaker 1: same time to go through the course of medical treatment
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  Speaker 1: and to take a long sea voyage. My own disposition,
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  Speaker 1: which is naturally restless, predisposed me strongly in favor of
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  Speaker 1: the latter piece of advice. And the matter was clinched
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  Speaker 1: by my meeting young Russell of the firm White, Russell
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  Speaker 1: and White, who offered me a passage in one of
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  Speaker 1: his father's ships, the Mary Celeste, which was just starting
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  Speaker 1: from Boston. She's a snug roll ship, he said, and Tibbs,
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  Speaker 1: the captain, is an excellent fellow. There is nothing like
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  Speaker 1: a sailing ship for an invalid. I was very much
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  Speaker 1: of the same opinion myself, so I closed with the
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  Speaker 1: offer on the spot. My original plan was that my
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  Speaker 1: wife should accompany me on my travels She has always
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  Speaker 1: been a very poor sailor, however, and there were strong,
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  Speaker 1: failing reasons against her exposing herself to any risk at
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  Speaker 1: the time, so we determined that she should remain at home.
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  Speaker 1: I am not a religious or an effusive man, but
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  Speaker 1: oh thank God for that. As to leaving my practice,
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  Speaker 1: I was easily reconciled to it. As Jackson, my partner,
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  Speaker 1: was a reliable and hard working man. I arrived in
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  Speaker 1: Boston October twelve, eighteen seventy three, proceeded immediately to the
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  Speaker 1: office of the firm in order to thank them for
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  Speaker 1: the courtesy. As I was sitting in the counting house
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  Speaker 1: waiting until they should be at liberty to see me,
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  Speaker 1: the words of Mary Celeste suddenly attracted my attention. I
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  Speaker 1: looked round and saw a very tall, gaunt man who
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  Speaker 1: was leaning across the polished mahogany counter, asking some questions
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  Speaker 1: of the clerk on the other side. His face was
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  Speaker 1: turned half towards me. I could see that he had
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  Speaker 1: a strong dash of negro blood in him, being probably
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  Speaker 1: a Quadroon or even nearer came to the black. His curved,
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  Speaker 1: equiline nose and straight lank hair showed the white strain,
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  Speaker 1: but the dark, restless eyes, sensuous mouth, and gleaming teeth
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  Speaker 1: all told of his African origin. His complexion was of
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  Speaker 1: a sickly unhealthy yellow, and as his face was deeply
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  Speaker 1: pitted with smallpox, the general impression was so unfavorable as
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  Speaker 1: to be almost revolting. When he spoke, however, it was
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  Speaker 1: in a soft, melodious tone and in well chosen words,
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  Speaker 1: and he was evidently a man of some education. I
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  Speaker 1: wish to ask a few questions about the Mary Celeste,
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  Speaker 1: he repeated, leaning across to the clerk. She sails the
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  Speaker 1: day after tomorrow, does she not? Yes, sir, said the
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  Speaker 1: young clerk, awed into unusual politeness by the glimmer of
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  Speaker 1: a large diamond in the stranger's shirt front. Where is
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  Speaker 1: she bound for Lisbon? How many of her crew? Seven, sir? Passengers? Yes, two,
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  Speaker 1: one of our young gentlemen, and the doctor from New York.
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  Speaker 1: No gentleman from the South, asked the stranger eagerly. No, none, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Is there room for another passenger accommodation for three more?
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  Speaker 1: Answered the clerk. I'll go, said the quadroon decisively. I'll go.
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  Speaker 1: I'll engage my passage at once, put it down, will you,
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  Speaker 1: mister septon Is Goring of New Orleans. The clerk filled
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  Speaker 1: up a form and handed it over to the stranger,
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  Speaker 1: pointing to a blank space at the bottom. As mister
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  Speaker 1: Goring stooped over to sign it, I was horrified to
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  Speaker 1: observe that the fingers was his right hand had been
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  Speaker 1: lopped off, and he was holding the pen between his
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  Speaker 1: thumb and the palm. I have seen thousands of slain
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  Speaker 1: in battle, and assisted at every conceivable surgical operation, but
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  Speaker 1: I cannot recall an eat sight which gave me such
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  Speaker 1: a thrill of disgust as that great brown sponge like
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  Speaker 1: hand with a single member protruding from it. He used
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  Speaker 1: it skillfully enough, however, for dashing off his signature. He
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  Speaker 1: nodded to the clerk and strolled out of the office,
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  Speaker 1: just as mister White sent out word that he was
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  Speaker 1: ready to receive me. I went down to the Mary
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  Speaker 1: Celeste that evening and looked over my berth, which was
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  Speaker 1: extremely comfortable considering the small size of the vessel. Mister Goring,
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  Speaker 1: who had seen that morning, was to have the one
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  Speaker 1: next to mine. Opposite was the captain's captain and a
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  Speaker 1: small berth for mister John Harton, a gentleman who was
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  Speaker 1: going out in the interest of the firm. These little
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  Speaker 1: rooms were arranged on each side of the passage which
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  Speaker 1: led from the main deck to the saloon. The latter
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  Speaker 1: was a comfortable room, the paneling tastefully done in oak
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  Speaker 1: and mahogany, with a rich Brussels carpet and luxurious atties.
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  Speaker 1: I was very much pleased with the accommodation, and also
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  Speaker 1: with Tibbs, the captain, a bluff ciliy like fellow with
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  Speaker 1: a loud voice and hearty manner, who welcomed me to
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  Speaker 1: the ship with the fusion and insisted upon him explitting
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  Speaker 1: a bottle of wine in his cabin. He told me
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  Speaker 1: that he tended to take his wife and the youngest
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  Speaker 1: child with him on the voyage, and the hope, with
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  Speaker 1: good luck, to make Lisbon in three weeks. We had
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  Speaker 1: a pleasant chat and parted the best of friends, he
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: warning me to make the last my preparations the next morning,
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: as he intended to make a start by the midday tide.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: Having now shipped all this cargo, I went back to
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: my hotel, where I found a letter from my wife
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: awaiting me, and after a refreshing night's sleep, returned to
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: the boat in the morning. From this point I am
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: able to quote from the journal, which I kept in
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: order to vary the monotony of the long sea voyage.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: If it is somewhat bald in places, I can at
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: least rely upon its accuracy and details, as it was
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: written conscientiously from day to day. October sixteenth. Cast off
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: our warps at half past two and were towed out
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: into the bay where the tug left us, and with
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: all sails set, we bowled along. I had about nine
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: knots an hour. I stood upon the poop, watching the
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: low land of America, seeking gradually upon the horizon, until
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: the evening haze hid it from my sight. A single
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: red light, however, continued to blaze balefully behind us, thrown
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: on a long track, like a trail of blood upon
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: the water, and it is still visible as I write,
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: though reduced to a mere speck. The captain is in
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: bad humor, for two of his hands disappointed him for
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: the last moment, and he was compelled to ship a
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: couple of negroes who happened to be on the key.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: The missing men were steady, reliable fellows, but been with
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: him several voyages, and their not appearance puzzled as well
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: as irritated him. Where a crew of seven men have
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: to work a fair sized ship the walls of two
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: experienced seamen is a serious one, for though the negroes
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: may take a spell at the wheel or swamp the decks,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: they are of little or of no use in rough weather.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Our cook is also a black man, and mister Septimus
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Goring has a little darky servant, so that we are
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: rather a piebald community. The accountant John Harton promises to
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: be an acquisition, for he is a cheery, amusing young fellow.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Strange how little wealth has to do with happiness. He
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: is all the world before him and is seeking his
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: fortune in a far land that he is as transparently
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: happy as a man can be. Goring is rich, if
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: I am not mistaken, and so am I. But I
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: know that I have a lung, and Goring at some
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: deeper trouble still to judge by his features. How poorly
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: do we both contrast with the careless, penniless clerk. October seventeen,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Missus Tibbs appeared upon the deck for the first time
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: this morning, a cheerful, energetic woman with a dear little
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: child just able to walk and pravel. Young Harton poussed
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: on it at once and carried it away to his cabin, where,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: no doubt he will lay the seeds of future dyspepsia
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: in the child's stomach. Thus medicine does make synics of us.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: All the weather is still all that could be desired.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: With the fine fresh breeze from the west southwest, the
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: vessel goes so steadily that you would hardly know that
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: she was moving, were it not for the creaking of
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: the corridage and the bellying of the sails, and the
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: long white furrow in our wake. Walked the quarter deck
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: all morning with the captain, and I think the keen
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: fresh air has already done my breathing good. For the
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: exercise did not fatigue me in any way. Tibbs is
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: a remarkably intelligent man. We had an interesting argument about
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Maury's observations on ocean currents, which we terminated by going
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: down to his cabin to consult the original work. There
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: we found goring rather than the captain's surprise, and as
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: not usual for passengers to enter that sanctum unless specially invited.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: He apologized for his intrusion, However, pleading his ignorance of
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: the usages of ship life and the good nature, sailor
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: simply left at the incident, begging him to remain and
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: favor us with his company. Goring pointed to the chronometers
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: the case in which he had opened, and remarked that
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: he had been admiring them. He is evidently some practical
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: knowledge of mathematical instruments, and he told us at a
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: glance which was the most trustworthy of the three, and
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: also named their price within a few dollars. Yet a
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: discussion with the captain two upon the variation of the compass.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: When he came back to the ocean currents, he showed
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: a thorough grasp of the subject, although he rather improves
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: upon acquaintance, and as a man of decided culture and refinement.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: His voice harmonizes with his conversation, and both are the
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: very antithesis of his face and figure. The noonday observation
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: shows that we have run two hundred and twenty miles.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Toward evening, the breeze freshened up, and the first mate
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: ordered reeese to be taken into the top sails. And
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: top gallon sales in expectation of a windy night. I
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: observed that the barometer has fallen to twenty nine. I
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: trust our voyage will not be a rough one, as
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I am a poor sailor, and my health will probably
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: derive more harm than good from a stormy trip, though
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: I have the greatest comfort in the captain's seamanship and
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: in the soundness of the vessel. Played cribbage with Missus
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Tibbs after supper, and Harton gave us a couple of
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: tunes in the Violin October eighteenth, the gloomy prognostications of
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: the last night were not fulfilled, as the wind died
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: away again. We are lying now in a long, greasy swell,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: ruffled here and there by a fleeting cat's ball, which
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: is insufficient to fill the sails. The air is colder
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: than it was yesterday, and I've put on one of
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: the thick woolen jerseys which my wife knitted for me.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Harton came into my cabin in the morning and we
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: had a cigar together. He says he remembers having seen
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Goring in Cleveland, Ohio, in sixty nine. He was It
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: appears a mystery then as now, wandering about about any
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: visible employment, and extremely reticent of his own affairs, the
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: man interests me as a psychological study. At breakfast this morning,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I suddenly had that vague feeling of uneasiness which comes
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: upon some people when closely stared at and looking quickly up,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I met his eyes bent upon me with an intensity
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: which amounted to ferocity, though their expression instantly softened as
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: he made some conventional remark upon the weather. Curiously enough,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Harton says that he has a very similar experience yesterday
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: at deck, I observe that Goring frequently talks to the
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: colored seamen as he strolls about a tray, which I
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: rather admire, as it is common to find half breeds
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: ignore their dark strain and treat their black kinswell with
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: greater intolerance than a white man would do. His little
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: page is devoted to him, apparently, which speaks well for
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: his treatment of him altogether. The man is a curious
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: mixture of incongruous qualities. Unless I am deceived in him,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: will give me food for observation. During the voyage, the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: captain is grumbling about his chronominers, which do not register exactly.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: At the same time, he says that it is the
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: first time they have ever disagreed. We were unable to
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: get a noonday observation on account of the haze. By
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: dead reckoning, we have done about one hundred and seventy
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: miles and twenty four hours. The dark seamen have proved,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: as the skipper prophesied, to be very inferior hands. But
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: as they could both manage to wheel well, they are
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: kept steering and so leave the more experienced men to
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: work the ship. These details are trivial enough, but a
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: small thing serves as food for gossip aboard ship. The
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: appearance of a whale in the evening caused quite a
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: flutter among us. From a sharp back and forked tail,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I should pronounce it to have been a roar call,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: or finner, as they are called by fishermen. October nineteenth
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: wind was cold, and so I prudently remained in my
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: cabin all day, only creeping out for dinner. Lying in
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: my bunk, I can without moving reached my books, pipes,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: or anything else I may want, which is one advantage
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: of a small apartment. My old wound began to ache
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: a little today, probably from the cold. Read Montane's essays
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: and nursed myself. Harton came in the afternoon with Dottie,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the captain's child, and the skipper himself followed, so that
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: I held quite a reception. October twentieth and twenty first,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: still cold, with a continual drizzle of rain, and I
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: have not been able to leave the cabin. The confinement
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: makes me feel weak and depressed. Goring came in to
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: see me, but his company did not tend to cheer
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: me up as much as he hardly uttered a word,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: but contented himself with staring at me in a peculiar
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: and rather irritating manner. He then got up and stole
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: out of the cabin without saying anything. I am beginning
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: to suspect that the man is a lunatic. I think
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I mentioned that his cabin is next to mine. The
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: two are simply divided by a thin wooden partition which
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: has cracked in many places, some of the crafts being
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: so large that I can hardly avoid. As I lie
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: in my bunk observing his motions in the adjoining room
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: without any wish to play the spy, I see him
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: continually stooping over what appears to be a chart and
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: working with a pencil and compasses. I have remarked the
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: interesting displays in matters conducted with navigation, but I am
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: surprised that he should take the trouble to work out
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: the course of the ship. However, it is a harmless
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: amusement enough, and no doubt he verifies his results by
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: those of the captain. I wish the man did not
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: run in my thoughts so much. I had a nightmare
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: on the night of the twentieth in which I thought
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: my bunk was a coffin, and I laid out in it,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and that Goring was endeavoring to nail up the lid,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: which I was frantically pushing away. Even when I woke up,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: I could hardly persuade myself that I was not in
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: a coffin. As a medical man, I know that a
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: nightmare is simply a vasculard arrangement of the cerebral hemispheres.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: And yet in my weak state I cannot shake off
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the morbid impression which it produces. October twenty second, a
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: fine day with hardly a cloud in the sky and
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: a fresh breeze from the southwest which wafts us gaily
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: on our way. There's evidently been some heavy weather near us,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: and there is a tremendous swell on and the ship
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: lurches until the end of the four yard nearly touches
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the water. Had a refreshing walk upon the quarter deck,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: though I have hardly found my sea legs yet, several
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: small birds chaffinches I think, perched in the rigging four
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: forty PM. While I was on deck this morning, I
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: heard a sudden explosion from the direction of my cabin, and,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: hurrying down, felt that I very nearly met with a
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: serious accident. Goring was cleaning a revolver, it seemed, in
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: his cabin when one of the barrels, which he thought
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: was unloaded, went off. The ball passed through the side
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: partition and embedded itself with the bulwarks and the exact
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: place for my head usually rests. I have been under
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: fire too often to magnify trifles, but there's no doubt
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: that if I had been the bunk, it must have
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: killed me. Goring poor fellow did not know that I'd
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: gone on deck that day, and was therefore I felt
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: terribly frightened. I never saw such emotion into me and
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: his face as when on rushing out of his cabin
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: with a smoking pistol in his hand. He met me
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: face to face as I came down from the deck.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Of course, he was profuse in his apologies, who I
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: simply laughed at the incident. Eleven PM, A misfortune has occurred,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: so unexpected and so horrible, that my little escape of
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: the morning dwindles into insignificance. Missus Tibbs and her child
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: have disappeared, utterly and entirely disappeared. I could hardly compose
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: myself to write the sad details. About half past eight,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Tibbs rushed into my cabin with a very white face
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: and asked me if I had seen his wife. I
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: answered that I had not. He then ran wildly into
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: the saloon and began groping about for any trace of her,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: while I followed him, endeavoring faintly to persuade him that
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: his fears were ridiculous. We hunted over the ship for
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: an hour and a half without coming on any sign
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: of the missing woman or child. Poor Tibbs lost his
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: voice completely from calling her name. Even the sailors, who
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: are generally stolid enough, were deeply affected by the sight
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: of him, as he roamed bareheadedly and disheveled about the deck,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: searching with feverish anxiety the most impossible places, and returned,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: ring to them again and again with piteous pertinacity. The
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: last time she was seen was about seven o'clock, when
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: she took Dotty onto the poop to give him a
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: breath of fresh air before putt him to bed. There
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: was no one there at the time. To the black
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: seaman at the wheel, who denies having seen her at all,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the whole affair is wrapped in mystery. My hole faori
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: is that when missus Tibbs was holding the child to
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: standing near the bulwarks, it gave a spring and fell overboard,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: and that in her convulsive attempt to catch or save him,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: she followed it. I cannot count for the double disappearance
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: in any other way. It is quite feasible that such
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: a tragedy should be enacted without the knowledge of the
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: man at the wheel, since it was dark at the time,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: and the peaked skylight to the saloon screened the greater
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: part of the quarter deck. Whatever the truth may be,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: it is a terrible catastrophe and has cast a darkest
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: gloom upon our voyage. The mate has put the ship about,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: but of course there is the slightest hope of picking
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: them up. The captain is lying in a state of
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: stupor in his cabin. I gave him a powerful dose
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: of opium his coffee, and for a few hours at
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: least his anguish may be dead. October twenty third woke
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: with a vague feeling of heaviness and misfortune. But it
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: was not until a few moments reflection I was able
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: to recall our loss of the night before. When I
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: came on deck, I saw the poor skipper standing gazing
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: back at the waste of waters behind us, which contained
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: everything dear to him upon earth. I intended to speak
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: to him, but he turned brusquely away and began pacing
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the deck with his head sunk upon his breast. Even now,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: when the truth is so clear, he cannot pass a
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: boat or an unbent sail without peering under. He looks
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: ten years older than he did yesterday morning. Harton is
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: terribly cut up, for he was fond of little Dotty,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: and Goring seemed sorry too. At least he has shut
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: himself up in his cabin all day. When I got
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: a casual glance at him, his head was resting on
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: his two hands, as if in a melancholy reverie, I
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: fear we are about as dismal crew as ever sailed.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: How shocked my wife will be to hear of our disaster.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: The swell's gone down now, and we are doing about
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: eight knots, with all sails set and a nice little breeze.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Hyson is practically in command of the ship, as Tibbs,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: though he does his best to bear up and keep
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: a brave front, is in capable of applying himself to
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: serious work. October twenty fourth is the ship occursed? Was
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: there ever a voiage which began so fairly and which
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: changed so disastrously? Tims shot himself through the head during
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the night. I was awakened about three o'clock in the
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: morning by an explosion, and immediately sprang out of bed
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and rushed into the cabin's cabin to find out the cause,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: though with a terrible presentiment in my heart. Quickly as
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I went, Goring went more quickly still, for he was
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: already in the cabin, stooping over the dead body of
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the captain. It was a hideous sight, for the whole
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: front of his face was blown in, and the little
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: room was swimming in blood. The pistol was lying beside
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: him on the floor, just as it had dropped from
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: his hand, yet evidently put into his mouth before pulling
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the trigger. Gordon and I picked him reverently up and
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: laid him on the bed. The crew had all clustered
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: into his cabin, and the six white men were deeply grieved,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: for they were old hands who sailed with him many years.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: There were dark looks and murmurs among them two and
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: one of them openly declared that the ship was haunted.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Harton helped to lay the poor skipper out, and we
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: did him up in the canvas between us. At twelve o'clock.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: The four yard was hauled up back and we committed
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: his body to the deep goring, reading the Church of
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: England burial services. The breeze had freshened up, and we
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: have done ten knots all day, and sometimes twelve. The
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: sooner we reached Lisbon and get away from this accursed ship,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the better pleased jellybe. I feel as though we were
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: in a floating coffin. Little wonder that the poor sailors
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: are superstitious, When I, an educated man, felt it so strongly.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: October twenty fifth made a good run all day feel
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: listless and depressed. October twenty sixth Goring, Harton and I
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: had a chat together on deck in the morning. Harton
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: tried the drug going out as to his profession and
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: its object in going to Europe, but the quadru and
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: parried all his questions. It gave us no information. Indeed,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: he seemed to be slightly offended by Harton's pertinacity and
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: went down into his cabin. I wonder why we should
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: both take such an interest in this man. I suppose
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: it is his striking appearance, coupled with his apparent wealth,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: which picks our curiosity. Harton has a theory that he's
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: really detective, that he's after some criminal has got away
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: to Portugal, and that he chooses this particular way of
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: traveling that he may arrive unnoticed and pounce upon his
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: quarry unawares. I think the superstition is rather a far
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: fetched one, but Harton bases it upon a book which
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Goring left on deck, and which he picked up and
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: glanced over. It was sort of a scrap book had
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: seen to contained a large number of newspaper cuttings. All
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: these cuttings related to murders, which have been committed at
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: various times in the States during the last twenty years
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: or so. The curious thing which Harton observed about them, however,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: was that there were invariably murders, the authors of which
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: had never been brought to justice. They varied in every detail,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: he says, as to the manner of execution and the
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: social status of the victim, but they uniformly wound up
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: with the same formula that the murderer was still at large,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: though of course the police had every reason to expect
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: his speedy capture. Certainly, the incident seems to support Harton's theory,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: though it may be a mere whim of gorings, or,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: as I suggested to Harton, he may be collecting materials
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: for a book which are outvied to Quincy. In any case,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: it is no business ab ale October twenty seventh, twenty
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: eighth wind and still fair, and we are making good progress.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Strange how easily a human unit may drop out of
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: its place and be forgotten. Tibbs is hardly ever mentioned.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Now hya Sin has taken possession of his cabin and
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: all goes on as before. We're it not for missus
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: TIB's sewing machine upon the side table. Who might forget
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: that the unfortunate family ever existed. Another accident occurred on
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: board today, though fortunately not a very serious one. One
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: of our white hands had gone down the afterhold to
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: fetch up a spare coil of rope, when one of
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: the hatches he had removed came crashing down on top
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: of him. He saved his life by springing out of
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the way, but one of his feet was terribly crushed,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: and he will be of little use for the remainder
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: of the voyage. He attributes the accident to the carelessness
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: of his Negro companion, who had helped him to shift
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: the hatches. The latter, however, puts it down to the
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: roll of the ship. Whatever be the cause, it reduces
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: our short handed crew still further. This run of ill
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: luck seems to be depressing Heart, for he has lost
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: his usual good spirits and joviality. Goring is the only
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: one deserves his cheerfulness. I seemed still working at his
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: chart in his own cabin. His notauical knowledge would be
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: useful should anything happen to hizin which God forbid. October
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: twenty ninth, thirtieth, Still bowling along with a fresh breeze,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: all quiet and nothing of note to Chronicle, October thirty first.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: My weak lungs, combined with the exciting episodes of the voyage,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: have shaken my nervous system so much that the most
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: trivial incident affects me. I can hardly believe that I'm
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: the same man who tied the external iliac artery, an
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: operation requiring the nice precision under a heavy rifle fire
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: at Antietum. I am as nervous as a child. I
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: was lying half dozing last night about four bells in
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the middle Watch, trying in vain to drop into a
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: refreshing sleep. There was no light inside my cabin, but
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: a single ray of moonlight streamed in through the porthole,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: throwing a silvery flickering circle upon the door. As I lay,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I kept my drowsy eyes upon this circle. I was
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: conscious that I was gradually becoming less well defined as
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: my senses left me. When I was suddenly recalled to
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: full wakefulness by the appearance of a small dark object
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: in the very center of the lumine, I lay quietly
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: and breathlessly watching it. Gradually it grew larger and plainer,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: and then I perceived that it was a human hand
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: which had been cautiously inserted through the chink in the
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: half closed door, a hand which, as I observed with
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: a thrill of horror, was not provided with fingers. The
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: door swung cautiously backward, and Gordon's head followed his hand.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: It appeared in the center of the moonlight, and was
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: framed as if it were a ghastly uncertain halo, against
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: which his features showed out plainly. It seemed to me
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: that I have never seen such an utterly fiendish and
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: merciless expression on a human face. His eyes were dilated
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: and glaring, his lips drawn back as to show his
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: white fangs, and his straight black hair appeared to bristle
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: over his low forehead like the hood of a cobra.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: A sudden and norseless apparition had such an effect upon me,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: and I sprang up in bed, trembling in every limb,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: and held out my hand toward my revolver. I was
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: hardly ashamed of my hastiness when he explained the object
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: of his intrusion, as he immediately did in the most
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: courteous language. He had been suffering from a toothache, poor fellow,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: and had come into begs of laudanum, knowing that it
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: possessed a medicine chest. As to a sinister expression, he
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: is never a beauty, and what with my state of
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: nervous tension and the effect of the shifting moonlight, it
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: was easy to conjure up something horrible. I gave him
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: twenty drops, and he went off again with many expressions
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: of gratitude. I can hardly say how much this trivial
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: incident affected me. I felt unstrung all day. A week's
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: record of our voyage is here omitted, as nothing eventful
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: occurred during the time. My law consists merely of a
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: few pages of unimportant gossip. November seventh, Harton and I
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: sat on the poop all the morning, for the weather
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: is becoming very warm, and we come into the southern latitudes.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: We reckon that we have done two thirds of our voyage.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: How glad we shall be to see the green banks
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: of the Tagus and leave this unlucky ship forever. I
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: was endeavoring to amuse Harton today and to while away
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: the time by telling him some of the experiences of
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: my past life. Among others, I related to him how
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: I came to possession of my black stone, and as
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: a finale, I rumased into the side pocket of my
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: old shooting coat and produced the identical object in question.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: He and I were bending over it together, I pointing
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: out to him the curious bridges upon its surface, when
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: we were conscious of a shadow falling between us and
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: the sun, and looking round, saw Goring Stin behind us,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: glaring over our shoulders at the stone. For some reason
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: or other, he appeared to be powerfully excited, though he
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: was evidently trying to control himself and to conceal his emotion.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: He pointed once or twice of my relic with his
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: stubby thumb before he could recover himself sufficiently to ask
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: what it was and how I obtained it, a question
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: put in such a brusque manner that should have been
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: offended had I not known the man to be an eccentric.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: I told him the story very much that I had
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: told it to Harton. He listened with the deepest interest,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: and then asked me if I had any idea what
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: the stone was. I said I had not, beyond that
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: net was meteorc. He asked me if I ever tried
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: its effects upon a negro, I said, I had not come,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: said he, We'll see what our black friend at the
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: wheel thinks of it. He took the stone in his
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: hand and went across to the tailor, and the two
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: examined it carefully. I could see the man gesticulating and
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: nodding his head excitedly as I had made some assertion,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: while his face betrayed the utmost astonishment mixed, I think
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: with some reverence. Goring came across the deck to as presently,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: still holding the stone in his hand. He says it
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: is a worthless, useless thing, he said, and fit only
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: to be chucked overboard, with which he raised his hand
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: in what it most certainly made an end of my route,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: had the black sailor behind him not rushed forward and
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: seized him by the wrist. Finding himself secured, Goring dropped
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: the stone and turned away with a very bad grace,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: to avoid my angry remonstrations at his breach of faith.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: The black picked up the stone and handed to me
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: with a low bow and every sign of profound respect.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: The whole affair is inexplicable. I am rapidly coming to
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: the inclusion that Goring is a maniac. Or something very
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: near one. When I compare the effect produced by the
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: stone upon the sailor. However, with the respect you into
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Marfa on the plantation, and the surprise of Goring on
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: his first production, I cannot become to the conclusion that
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I have really got hold of some powerful talisman which
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: appeals to the whole dark race. I must not trust
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: it in Goring's hands again. November eighth, ninth, what's splendid
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: weather we are having? Beyond one little blow? We have
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: had nothing but fresh breezes the whole voyage these two days.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: We have made better runs than any hitherto. It is
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: a pretty thing to watch the spray fly up from
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: our prow as it cuts through the waves. The sun
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: shines through it and breaks it up a number of
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: miniature rainbows sun dogs, the sailors call them. I stood
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: on the forecastle head for several hours today, watching the effect,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: and surrounded by a halo of prismatic colors. The steersman
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: had evidently told the other blacks about my wonderful stone,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: for I am treated by them with all the greatest respect.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Talking about optical phenomenon, we had a curious one yesterday
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: evening which was pointed out to me by Haysin. This
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: was the appearance of a triangular, well defined object high
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: up in the heavens to the north of us. He explained,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: it was exactly like the peak of Teneriff, as seen
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: from a great distance. The peak was, however, at that moment,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: at least five hundred miles to the south. It may
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: have been a cloud, or maybe one of those strange
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: reflections of which one reads. The weather is very warm.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: That mat says that he had never knew it's so
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: warm with these latitudes. Played chess with Hartman in the
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: evening November tenth. It is getting warmer and warmer. Land
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: birds came and perched in the rigging today, but we
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: were still a considerable way from our destination. The heat
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: is so great that we were too lazy to do
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: anything but lounge about decks and smoke. Gorn came over
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: to me today and asked me some more questions about
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: my stone, But I answered him rather shortly, for I've
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: not quite forgiven him yet for the cool way in
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: which he attempted to deprive me of it. November eleventh
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: and twelfth, still making good progress, I had no idea
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Portugal was ever as hot as this, but no doubt
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: is cooler on land. Heisen himself seemed surprised at it,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: and so do the men. November thirteenth, a most extraordinary
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: event has happened, so extraordinary as to be almost inexplicable.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Either Hysin has blundered wonderfully, or some magnetic influence has
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: disturbed our instruments. Just about daybreak the washing, the forecastle
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: head shouted out that he heard the sound of surf ahead,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: and Heysen thought that he sold the loom of land.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: The ship was put about, and though no lights were seen,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: none of us doubted that we had struck the Portuguese
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: coast a little sooner than we had expected. What was
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: our surprise to see the scene that was revealed to
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: us at the break of day. As far as we
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: could look on either side was one long line of surf,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: great green billows rolling in and breaking into a cloud
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: of foam. But behind the surf, what was there, not
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the green banks, nor the high cliffs of the shores
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: of Portugal, but a great sandy waste, which stretched away
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: and away until it blended with the skyline. To right
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: and left, look where you would there was nothing but
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: yellow sand heaped in some places in the fantastic mountains,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: some of them several hundred feet high, while other parts
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: were long stretches as level, apparently as a billiard board.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Harton and I, who had come on deck together, looked
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: at each other in astonishment, and Harton burst out laughing.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Heysanis exceedingly mortified at the occurrence and protested the instruments
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: have been tampered with. There is no doubt that this
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: is the mainland of Africa, and that was really the
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: peak of Tenerief, which we saw some days ago upon
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: the northern horizon. At the time when we saw the
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: land birds, we must have been passing some of the
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Canary Islands if we continued on the same course. We
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: are now to the north of Cape Blanco, near the
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: unexplored country which skirts the Great Sahara. All we could
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: do is directify our instruments as far as possible, and
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: started fresh for our destination. Eight thirty PM. Have been
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: lying in a calm all day. The coast is now
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: about a mile and a half from us. Eisen has
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: examined the instruments but cannot find any reason for their
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: extraordinary deviation. This is the end of my private journal,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: and I must make the remainder of my statement from memory.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: There's a little chance of my being mistaken about facts
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: which have seared themselves into my recollection. That very night,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: the storm which had been brewing so long, burst over us,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: and I came to learn whether all those little incidents
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: were tending which I had recorded so aimlessly, blind fool
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: that I was not to have seen it sooner. I
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: shall tell what occurred as precisely as I can. I
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: got into my cabin about half past eleven and was
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: preparing to go to bed when a tap came at
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: my door. On opening it, I saw Goring's little black page,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: who told me that his master would like to have
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: a word with me on deck. I was rather surprised
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: that you should want me at a late hour, but
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: I went up without hesitation. I had hardly put my
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: foot in the quarter of Dea before I was seized
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: from behind, dragged down upon my back, and a handkerchief
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: slipped around my mouth. I struggled as hard as I could,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: but a coil of rope was rapidly and firmly wound
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: around me. I found himself lashed to the Davit of
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: one of the boats, utterly powerless to do or say anything,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: while the point of a knife pressed to my throat
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: warned me to cease my struggles. The night was so
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: dark that I had been unable hi thereto to recognize
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: my assailants. But as my eyes became accustomed to the
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: gloom and the moon broke out through the clouds that
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: obscured it, I made not that I was surrounded by
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: the two Negro sailors, the Black Cook and my fellow passenger, Goring.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Another man was crouching on the deck at my feet,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: but he was in the shadow and I could not
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: recognize him. All this occurred so rapidly that a minute
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: could hardly have elapsed from the time I mounted the
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: companion until I found himself gagged and powerless. It was
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: so sudden that I could scarce puring myself to realize
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: it order to comprehend what it all meant. I heard
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: the gang around me speaking in short, fierce whispers to
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: each other, and some instinct told me that my life
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: was to question that issue. Goring spoke authoritatively and angrily.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: The others doggedly and altogether, as if this beating his commands.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Then they moved away in a body to the opposite
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: side of the deck, where I could still hear them whispering,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: though they were concealed from my view by the saloon skylights.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: All this time, the voices on the watch of the deck,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: chatting and laughing at the other end of the ship,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: were distinctly audible, and I could see them gathered in
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: a group, little dreaming of the dark dounes which were
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: going on within thirty yards of them. Oh that I
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: could have given them one word of warning, even though
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: I had lost my life in doing it. But it
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: was impossible. The moon was shining fitfully through the scattered clouds,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: and I could see the silvery gleam of the surge,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: and beyond it the vast, weird desert with its fantastic
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: sand hills. Glancing down, I saw that the man who
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: had been crouching on the deck was still lying there.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: As I gazed at him, a flickering ray of moonlight
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: fell full upon his upturned face. Great Heaven. Even now,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: when more than twelve years have elapsed, my hand trembles
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: as at this, In spite of distorted features and projecting eyes,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: I recognized the face of hearten. The cheery young clerk
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: would have been my companion during the voyage. It needed
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: no medical eye to see that he was quite dead,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: while a twisted handkerchief round the neck and the gag
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: in his mouth showed the silent way in which the
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: hell House had done their work. The clue which explained
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: every event of our voyage came upon me with a
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: flash of light as it gazed upon poor Harton's corpse.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Much was dark and unexplained, but I felt a great
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: dim perception of the truth. I heard the striking of
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: a match at the other side of the skylights, and
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: then I saw the tall, gaunt figure of Goring standing
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: up in the bulwarks and holding his hands what appeared
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: to be a dark lantern. He lowered this for a
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: moment over the side of the ship, and to my
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: inexpressible astonishment, I saw it answered instantaneously by a flash
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: among the sand hills on shore, which came and went
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: so rapidly that unless I had been following the direction
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: of Goring's gaze, I should never have detected it. Again,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: he lowered the lantern, and again it was answered from
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: the shore. He then stepped down from the bulwarks, and
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: in doing so slipped, making such a noise that for
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: a moment my heart bounded with the thought that the
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: attention of the watch would be directed to his proceedings.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: It was a vain hope. The night was calm and
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: the ship motionless, and so that no idea of duty
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: kept them vigilant. Haysin, who after the death of Tibbs,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: was in command on both watches, had gone below to
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: snatch a few hours sleep, and the Bosin, who was
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: left in charge, was standing with the other two men
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: at the foot of the foremast, powerless, speechless, with the
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: cortz cutting to my flesh, and the murdered man at
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: my feet, I awaited the next act in the tragedy.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: The four Ruffians were standing up now at the other
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: side of the deck. The cook was armed with some
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: sort of cleaver, the others had knives, and Goring had
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: a revolver. They were all leaning against the rail and
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: looking out over the waters as if watching for something.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: I saw one of them grasp another's arms and point
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: as if at some object, and following the direction, I
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: made out the loom of a large moving mass making
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: towards the ship as it emerged from the gloom. I
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: saw that it was a great canoe, crammed with men
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: and propelled by at least the score of paddlers. As
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: it shot under our stern, the Watch caught side of
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: it also, and, raising a cry, hurried aft. They were
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: too late, however, and a swarm of gigantic negroes climbered
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: over the quarter, and, led by Goring, swept down the
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: deck in irresistible torrent. All opposition was overpowered. In a moment.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: The unarmed Watch were knocked over and bound, and the
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: sleepers dragged out of their bunks and secured. In the
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: same manner. Heysen made an attempt to defend the narrow
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: passage leading to his cabin, and I heard a scuffle
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: and his voice shouted for assistance. There was none to assist, however,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: and he was brought onto the poop, with the blood
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: streaming from a deep cut in his forehead. He was
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: gagged at the others, and a council was held upon
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: our fate by the Negroes. I saw our black seamen
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: pointing towards me and making some statement which was received
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: with murmurs of establishment and incredulity by the savages. One
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: of them then came over to me, and, plunging his
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: hands in my pocket, took out my black stone and
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: held it up. He then handed it to a man
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: who appeared to be a chief, who examined it as
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: minutely as the light would permit, and, muttering a few words,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: passed to the warrior beside him, who also scrutinized it,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: and passed an on until a god from hand to
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: hand around the whole circle. The chief had said a
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: few words to Gorey in the native tongue on which
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: they quadru and addressed me in English. At this moment
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: I seemed to see the scene, the tall, massless ship
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: of the moonlight streaming down, silvering the yards and bringing
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: the network of cordage too hard relief. The group of
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: dusky warriors leaning on their spears, the dead man at
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: my feet, the line of white faced prisoners, and in
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: front of me, the lowsome half breed looking at his
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: white linen and an elegant clothes, a strange contrast to
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: his associates. You will bear me witness, he said, in
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: his softest accents, that I have no party to sparing
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: your life if it rests with me, you would die
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: as these other men are about to. I have no
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: personal grudge against either you or them, but I have
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: devoted my life to the destruction of the white race,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: and you are the first that has ever been in
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: my power and has escaped me. You may thank that
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: stone of yours for your life. These poor fellows reverence it,
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: and indeed, if it really be what they think of
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: it is they have cause. Should it prove that when
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: we get assured, that they are mistaken, and that its
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: shape and material is a mere chance, nothing conceived your life.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, we wish to treat you well. So
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: if there are any your possessions which you would like
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: to take with you, you are at liberty to get them.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: As he finished, he gave a sign, and a couple
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: of the negroes unbound me, though without removing the gag.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: I was led down into the cabin, where I put
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: a valuables into my pockets, together with a pocket compass
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: my journal of the voyage. Then they pushed me over
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: the side into a small canoe which was lying beside
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: the large one. My guards followed me, and, shoving off,
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: began paddling for the shore. We got about one hundred
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: yards or so from the ship, when our steersmen held
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: up his hand and the paddlers paused for a moment
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: and listened. Then on the sounds of the night, I
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: heard a sort of dull, moaning sound, followed by a
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: sussession of splashes in the water. That is all I
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: know of the fate of my poor shipmates. Almost immediately afterwards,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: the large canoe followed us, and the deserted ship was
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: left drifting about a dreary, specter like hulk. Nothing was
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: taken from her by the savages. The whole Fienus transaction
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: was carried through as decorously and temperately as though it
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: were a religious rite. The first gray of daylight was
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: visible in the east, and we passed through the surge
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: and reached the shore, leaving a half dozen men with
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: the canoes. The rest of the Negro set off through
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: the sand hills, leading me with them, but treating me
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: very gently and respectfully. It was difficult walking as we
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: sank over our ankles in the loose, shifting sand every step,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: and I was nearly dead beat by the time reached
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: the native village or town rather, for it was a
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: place of considerable dimensions. The houses were conical structures, not
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: unlike bee hives, and are made of compressed seaweeds cemented
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: over a rude form of mortar, there being neither stick
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: nor stone upon the coast, nor anywhere within many hundreds
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: of miles. As we entered the town, an enormous crowd
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: of both sexes came swarming out to meet us, beating
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: tom toms and howling and screaming. On seeing me, they
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: redoubled their yells and assumed the threatening attitude, which was
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: instantly quelled by a few words shouted by my escort.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: A buzz of wonder succeeded the war cries and yells
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: the moment before, and the whole dense mass proceeded down
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: the broad central street of the town, having my escort
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: and myself in the center. My statement hitherto may seem
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: so strange as to excite doubt in the minds of
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: those who do not know me. But it was the
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: fact which I am now about to relate, which caused
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: my own brother in law to insult me by disbelief.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: I could but relate to the occurrence of the simplest words,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: and trust to chance in time to prove their truth.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: In the center of this main street, there was a
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: large building formed in the scene primitive way to the others,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: but towering high above them. A stockade of beautifully polished
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: ebony rails was planted all around it. The framework of
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: the door was formed by two magnificent elephants tusks sunk
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: in the ground on each side and meeting at the top,
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: and the aperture was closed by a screen of native
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: cloth richly embroidered with gold. We made our way to
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: this imposing looking structure, but on reaching the opening of
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: the stockade, the multitude stopped and squatted down upon their hands,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: while I was led through into the enclosure by a
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: few of the chiefs and the elders of the tribe,
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: goring accompanying us and in fact directing the proceedings. On
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: reaching the screen which closed the temple, for such it
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: evidently was, my hat and my shoes were removed, and
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: I was then let in, a venerable old negro leading
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: the way, carrying in his hand my stone, which had
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: been taken from my pocket. The building was only lit
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: up by a few long slits in the roof, through
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: which the tropical sun poured throwing broad golden bars upon
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: the clay floor, alternating with intervals of darkness. The interior
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: was even larger than one would have imagined from the
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: outside appearance. The walls were hung with native mass shells
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: and other ornaments, but the remainder of the great space
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: was quite empty, with the exception of a single object
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: in the center. This was the figure of a colossal negro,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: which I at first thought to be some real king
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: or high priests of Titanic size. But as I approached it,
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: I saw by the way in which the light was
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: reflected from it, that it was a statue, admirably cut
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: in a jet black stone. I was led up to
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: this idol for such a scene to be, and looking
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: at it closer, I saw that though it was perfect
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: in every respect, one of its ears had been broken
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: short off. The gray haired negro, who held my relic,
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: mounted upon a small stool, and stretching up his arm,
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: fitted Martha's black Stone onto the jagged surface of the
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: side of the statue's head. There could be no doubt
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: that the one had been broken off from the other.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: The parts dovetailed together so accurately that when the old
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: man removed his hand, the ear stuck in its place
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: for a few seconds before dropping into his open pull.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: The group round me prostrated themselves upon the ground at
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: the sight with a cry of reverence, while the crowd outside,
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: to whom the results communicated, set up a wild whooping
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: and cheering. In a moment, I found myself converted from
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: a prisoner into a demigod. I was escorted back from
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: the the town in triumph, The people pressing forward to
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: touch my clothing together up the dust upon which my
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: foot had trod. One of the largest huss was put
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: at my disposal, and a banquet of every native delicacy
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: was served me. I still, felt, however, that I was
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: not a free man, as several spearmen were placed on
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: guard at the entrance of my hut. All day, my
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: mind was occupied with plans of escape, but none seemed
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: in any way feasible. On the one side was the
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: great arid desert stretching away to Timbuctoo. On the other
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: was a sea untraversed by vessels. The more I pondered
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: over the problem, the more hopeless did it seem. I
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: little dreamed how near he was to solution. Night had
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: fallen and the clamor of the Negroes had died gradually away.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: I was stretched on the couch of skins, which had
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: been provided from me, and was still meditating over my future.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: When Goring walked stealthily to my hut. My first idea
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: was that he had come to complete his murderous holocaust
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: by making away with me, the last survivor, and I
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: sprung up upon my feet, determined to defend myself to
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: the last. He smiled when I saw the action, and
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: motioned me down again, while he seated himself upon the
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: other into the couch. What do you think of me?
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Was the astonishing question with which he commenced our conversation.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Think of you, I almost yelled. I think you're the vilest,
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: most unnatural renegade that ever polluted the earth. If we
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: were away with these black devils of yours, I would
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: strangle you with my hands. Don't speak so loud, he said,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: without the slightest appearance of irritation. I don't want our
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: chat to be cut short, so you would strangle me,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: would you? He went on with an amused smile. I
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: suppose I am returning good for evil, for I have
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: come to help you escape you, I gasped incredulously. Yes ay,
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: he continued, Oh, there's no credit to me in this matter.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: I am quite consistent. There's no reason why I should
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: not be perfectly candid with you. I wish to be
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: king over these fellows. Not a very high ambition, certainly,
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: But you know what Caesar said about being first in
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: a village in gaul. Well, this unlucky stone of yours
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: has not only saved your life, but has turn all
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: their heads so that they think you are coming down
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: from heaven, and my influence will be gone until you
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: were out of the way. That is why I'm going
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: to help you escape, since I cannot kill you. This
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: the most natural and dulcet voice. As of the desire
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: to do so were a matter of course, you would
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: give the world to ask a few questions, he went on,
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: after a pause. But you were too proud to do it.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Never mind, I'll tell you one of two things, because
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: I want your fellow wetman to know them when you
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: go back, if you were lucky enough to get back.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: About that cursed stone of yours. For instance, those negroes,
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: or at least subtle legend goes, were Mahatman's. Originally, when
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: Muhammad himself was still alive, there was a schism among
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: his followers, and the smaller party moved away from Arabia
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: and eventually crossed Africa. It took away with them in
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: their exile the valuable relic of their old faith, in
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: the shape of a large piece of the Black Stone
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: of Mecca. The stone was a meteoric one, as you
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: may have heard, and in its fall upon the earth,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: it broke into two pieces. One of these pieces is
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: still in Mecca. The larger piece was carried away to Barbary,
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: where a skillful worker modeled it into the fashion which
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: you saw today. These men, under the descendants of the
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: original seceders from Muhammad, and they have brought their relics
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: safely through all their wanderings until they settled in this
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: strange place, where the desert protects them from their enemies.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: And the ear I asked, almost involuntarily, Oh, that was
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: the same story over again. Some of the tribe wandered
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: away to the south a few hundred years ago, and
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: one of them, wishing to have good luck for the enterprise,
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: got into the temple at night and carried off one
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: of the ears. There had been a tradition among the
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: Negroes ever since that the ear would come back someday.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: The fellow who carried it was caught by some slavery,
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: no doubt, and that was how he got into America,
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: and so into your hands. And you have had the
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: honor of fulfilling the prophecy. He paused for a few minutes,
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: resting his head upon his hands, waiting apparently for me
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: to speak. When he looked up again, the whole expression
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: of his face had changed. His features were firm and set,
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: and he changed the air of half levity with which
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: he had spoken before for one of sternness and almost ferocity.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: I wish you to carry a message back, he said,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: to the white race, the great dominating race, whom I
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: hate and defy, telling him I have battened on their
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: blood for twenty years. Then I've slain them till even
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: I became tired of what had once been a joy.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: And I did this unnoticed and unsuspected, in the face
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: of every precaution which there seevilization could suggest. There is
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: no satisfaction in revenge when your enemy does not know
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: who has struck him. I am not sorry therefore to
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: have you as a messenger. There is no need why
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: I should tell you how this great hate become born
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: to me. See this, and he held up his mutilated hand.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: This was done by a white man's knife. My father
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: was white. My mother was a slave. When he died,
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: she was sold again, And I, a child, then saw
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: her lashed to death to break her of some of
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: the little airs and graces which her late master had
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: encouraged in her. My young wife, too, oh, my young wife.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: A shudder ran through his whole frame. No matter. I
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: swore my oath, and I kept it from Maine to Florida,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: from Boston to San Francisco. You could track my stets
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: by sudden deaths, which baffled the police. I warred against
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: the whole white race, as they, for centuries had warred
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: against the black one. At last, as I tell you,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: I sickened of blood. Still, the sight of a white
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: face was abhorred to me, and I determined to find
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: some bold, free black people, and to throw in my
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: lot with them, to cultivate their latent powers, and to
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: form a nucleus for a great colored nation. This idea
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: possessed me, and I traveled over the world for two
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: years seeking for what I desired. At last, I was
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: almost despaired of finding it. There was no hope of
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: regeneration in the slave dealing sound and knees, the debased Fantee,
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: or the Americanized negroes of Liberia. I was returning from
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: my quest when chance brought me in contact with this
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: magnificent tribe of dwellers in the desert. I threw in
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: my lot with them. Before doing so, however, my old
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: instinct of revenge prompted me to make one last visit
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: to the United States, and I returned from it in
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: the Mary Celeste. As to the voyage itself, your intelligence
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: wellth told you by this time that, thanks to my manipulations,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: both compasses and chronometers were entirely untrustworthy. I alone worked
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: up the course with correct instruments of my own, while
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: the steering was done with my black friends. Under my guidance,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: I pushed TIB's wife overboard. What you look surprised and
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: shrink away. Surely you had guessed that by the time
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: I would have shot you that day through the partition,
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: but unfortunately you were not there. I tried again afterwards,
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: but you were awake, I shot TIBs. I think the
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: idea of suicide was carried out rather neatly. Of course,
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: when once we got on the coast, the rest was simple.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: I had bargained that all on board should die, but
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: that stony years upset my plans. I also bargained that
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: there should be no plunder. No one can say that
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: we are pirates. We have acted from principle and not
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: from any sordid motive. I listened in amazement to the
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: summary of his crimes, which this strange man gave me.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: While in the quietest and most composed of voices, as
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: though detailing incidents of everyday occurrence, I still seemed to
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: see him sitting like a hideous nightmare at the end
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: of my couch, with a single rude lamp flickering over
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: his cadaverous features. And now he continued, there's no difficulty
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: about your escape. These stupid adopted children of mine will
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: say that you have got back to heaven. From whence
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: you came. The wind blows off the land. I have
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: a boat already for you, well stored with provisions and water.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: I am anxious to be rid of you, so you
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: may rely that nothing is neglected, rise up and follow me.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: I did what he commanded, and he led me through
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: the door of the hut. The guards had not have
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: been withdrawn, or Gordon had arranged manners with them. We
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: passed unchallenged through the town and across the sandy plain.
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: Once more I heard the roar of the sea and
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: saw the long white line of the searche. Two figures
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: were standing upon the shore, arranging the gear of the
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: small boat. They were to two sailors who had been
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: with us on the voyage. See him safely through the surf,
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: said Goring. The two men sprang in and pushed off,
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: pulling me in after them. With mainsail and jib, we
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: ran out from the land and passed safely over the bar.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: Then my two companions, without a word of farewell, sprang overboard,
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: and I saw their heads like black dots in the
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: white foam as they made their way back to the shore,
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: while I scudded the way into the blackness of the night,
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: looking back and caught my last glimps of Goring. He
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: was standing upon the summit of a sand hill, and
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: the rising moon behind him. Through his gaunt angular figure
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: into hard relief. He was waving his arms frantically to
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: and fro. It may have been to encourage me on
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: my way, but the gesture seemed to me at the
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: time to be a threatening one. I have often thought
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: that it was more levely that his old savage instinct
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: had returned when he realized that I was out of
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: his power. Be it as it may, it was the
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: last thing I ever saw, or shall ever see, Exceptimus Goring.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: There is no need for me to dwell upon my
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: solitary voyage. I steered as well as I could from
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: the Canaries, but I was picked up upon the fifth
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: day by the British and African Steam Navigation Company's boat Monrovia.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: Let me take this opportunity of tendering my sincerest thanks
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: to Captain Stornaway and his officers with a great kindness
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: which they showed me from that time till they landed
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: me in Liverpool, or I was able to take one
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: of the Guyan boats in New York. From the day
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: on which I found myself once more in the bosom
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: of my family, I have said little of what I've undergone.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: The subject is still an intensely painful one to me,
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: and the little which I have dropped, has been discredited.
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: I now put the facts before the public as they occurred,
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: careless how far they may be believed, and simply utting
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: him down. Because my lung is growing weaker, and I
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: feel the responsibility of holding my peace longer, I make
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: no vague statement. Turn to your map of Africa. There,
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: above Cape Blanco, where the land trends towards north and
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: south from the westernmost point of the continent. There it
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: is that Septimus Goring still reigns over his dark subjects,
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: unless retribution has overtaken him. And there with a long
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: green ridges run swiftly in to roar and hiss upon
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: the hot yellow sand. It is there that Hearton lies
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: with Hyson and the other poor fellows who were done
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: to death in the Mary Celeste end of Chapter eleven.