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Updated: May 26, 2025
The ocean was still heavy with running seas, but we rode high and dry. Unlucky Kampke! His shipmates bore his dunnage aft, for the captain to take in charge. And, just as in melodramas and popular novels, a picture of a fair-haired girl was found at the bottom of his sea-chest, together with one of his mother ... his sweetheart and his mother....
It was then that we lost overboard a fine, handsome young Saxon, one Gottlieb Kampke: Five men aloft ... only four came down ... Kampke was blown overboard off the footrope that ran under the yard, as he stood there hauling in on the sail.
There was no use trying to rescue Gottlieb Kampke. Besides, he would be dead as soon as he reached the water, in such a boiling sea, the captain said to me. The melancholy cry, "Man overboard!" ... I took oath that if I ever reached home alive, I would never go to sea again.
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