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"Helmsman," cried the captain, now entering the cabin, "it can't be helped. You must go on shore, and look after the old gentleman's wounds, for he is my best friend, and I cannot treat him with too much consideration. Put a mattrass into the boat," he continued, "that he may lie comfortably upon it, and when you get to land carry him as carefully as possible."
He is, as Swinburne says, helmsman and chief: he is literally the Man at the Wheel. The wheel is an animal that is always standing on its head; only "it does it so rapidly that no philosopher has ever found out which is its head." Or if the phrase be felt as more exact, it is an animal that is always turning head over heels and progressing by this principle.
An athletic black belonging to some coast tribe, and educated by my poor predecessor, was the helmsman. He sported a pair of brass earrings, wore a blue cloth wrapper from the waist to the ankles, and thought all the world of himself. He was the most unstable kind of fool I had ever seen.
Toni said nothing, but shoving aside the helmsman with a stroke of his paw, he grasped the wheel, making the boat swerve in another direction. The movement was opportune. Only a few seconds had passed by when there began to be seen upon the water a black back of dizzying speed headed directly for the steamer. "Torpedo!" shouted the captain. The anxious waiting lasted but a few seconds.
The following lines are a rough literal translation of a fragment of the story which describes the meeting with UNGAP of BATANG MIJONG, a departed soul: BATANG MIJONG stands waving his shield. The helmsman SARAMIN with body of brass will carry over BATANG MIJONG. BATANG MIJONG seeks the place of the Punans. Good journey to you, BATANG MIJONG. BATANG MIJONG, O, why are you called?
I stopped the Anschutz and asked the pilot to give the helmsman a steady by magnetic.
The screws ground the water astern into foam, the black shape leapt forward and sped away eastward into the glimmering dawn with its silent passenger lying in the swinging boat, and the unseen watchers standing by the helmsman.... More earth-hours passed. The sun rose upon a lonely sea.
Being a strong and vigorous villain, however, he clung tenaciously to his oar, and even unbuckling his leather belt, passed it round the slip of wood that was his salvation, girding himself to it as firmly as he was able. In this condition, plus a swoon from exhaustion, he was descried by the helmsman of the Pretty Mary, a few miles from Cape Surville, at daylight next morning.
I had now learned to laugh at trifles, and I cared little about this decided step which his prudence induced him to take. "Our boat has one sail, And the helmsman is pale; A bold pilot, I trow, Who should follow us now," Shouted he. As he spoke, bolts of death Speck'd their path o'er the sea. "And fear'st thou, and fear'st thou? And see'st thou, and hear'st thou?
The shoals were ahead of us, and we had only two fathoms, and even less, of water. The captain and helmsman were confused, and hardly knew where they were. This happened two or three times. In order to avoid the shoals, we had to keep to the east. We were fearful we should strike upon them, and it was therefore best to look out and keep free of them.
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