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Updated: May 4, 2025
The wheel and lookout had been relieved, but the mate did not summon his watch to labor, as was his custom; he kept to the poop, and we heard not a peep from him. The squareheads had taken a lamp from the lamp-locker and a sack of coal from the peak, and Lindquist had the body of Nils upon the forehatch preparing it for sea-burial. He stitched away in silence, his mates watched him in silence.
He shook the great shoulders, bat quickly desisted; there was something horrible, something that touched his nerves, in its irresponsiveness. He remembered that he might probably find matches in the lamp-locker, and staggered there to search. He had to grope in gross darkness about the place, touching brass and the uncanny smoothness of glass, before his hand fell on what he sought.
"But " said the Old Man, and stopped. The Second Mate cut in. "I shall go up, for one, Sir," he said, quietly. Then he turned back to the crowd of us. "Tammy," he sung out. "Get a couple of lamps out of the lamp-locker." "i, i, Sir," Tammy replied, and ran off. "Now," said the Second Mate, addressing us. "I want a couple of men to jump aloft along with me and take a look for Stubbins."
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