The Death Ship, a Strange Story; An Account of a Cruise in "the Flying Dutchman," Collected From the Papers of the Late Mr. Geoffrey Fenton, of Poplar, Master Mariner 1
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Their voices came alono: in a low, grumbling sound like the growling of dogs, dulled by threats. '' Silence, fore and aft I" cried the mate. "We don't know what she is — but we know what we are ! and. as Englishmen, we surely have spirit enough for whatever may come." There was silence for some minutes after these few words ; then the muttering broke out afresh, but scattered, a group talking to larboard, another on the forecastle, and so forth. Meanwhile the vessels, all insensibly, had contin...ued to draw closer and closer to each other. A small clarification of the atmos- I20 THE DEATH SHIP. phere happening past the stranger, suffered a dim disclosure of her canvas, whence I per- ceived that she had nothing set above her topgallant-sails, though it was impossible to see whether she carried royal-masts, or indeed whether the yards belonging to those masts were crossed on them. Her hull had now also stolen out into a pitch-black shadow, and after gazing at it with painful intentness for some moments, I was extravagantly as- tonished to observe a kind of crawling and flickering of light, resembling that which burnt in the sea, stirring like glow-worms along the vessel's side.
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