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Updated: May 10, 2025
"It was stolen from the captain's cabin, where it was locked for safe keeping, and presumably thrown overboard. At least, we didn't find it." "I see you are consulting a book to refresh your memory. What is this book?" "The ship's log." "How does it happen to be in your possession?" "The crew appointed me captain. As such, I kept the log-book.
They were about passing Panama: the vessel continuing her voyage, Selkirk interposed his authority, ordered the men to put about, take in sail and approach the shore. This Stradling prohibited, uttered a formidable oath, and commanded the young man to bring the log-book.
Long days, late into the night, are passed by Oswald sitting on and walking the decks. This homeless wanderer on havenless seas recks little of log-book or transit. Unlike sure-winged passage-bird, he knows not his journey's issue. So perverse have been fate's courses that this high-strung, assertive mariner hesitates to direct life's drifting argosy.
"Ay, ay," muttered the mate, as he went below to give the necessary directions, "you don't need to conclude your speech, Captain. If we don't get out to-morrow, we're locked up for one winter at least if not more." "Ay, and ye'll no get oot to-morrow," remarked Saunders with a shake of his head, as he looked up from the log-book, in which he was making an entry.
"See! they were writing up the log," said Nares, pointing to the ink-bottle. "Caught napping, as usual. I wonder if there ever was a captain yet, that lost a ship with his log-book up to date? He generally has about a month to fill up on a clean break, like Charles Dickens and his serial novels. What a regular, lime-juicer spread!" he added contemptuously. "Marmalade and toast for the old man!
Nothing was left them now but their good intentions, duly entered in the log-book. But fate, and the stupid understanding of some one or two of them, decreed that their good intentions also should be taken from them.
I have some papers and envelopes here in my jacket, and a stub of pencil for the log-book, and while you are at your writing I'll fashion a stopper for the bottle and a buoy."
He told of the time his father first gave it to him, of his experiments in astronomy, and of Nat's coveting the mirror. He told of that night after the first race when he had looked for the log-book of the May and had seen the mirror in its drawer. He told of its final discovery in the secret box of the storeroom on the Nettie.
To be sure, there were minor incidents that Phil entered in the log-book he was keeping: as when Han fell overboard one morning in a heavy sea when the Adventurer was reeling off her twelve miles and was pretty well filled with brine and very near exhaustion when he reached the life-buoy they threw him. And once Ossie pretty nearly cut a finger off while opening a lobster.
Then, in another drawer, also in the skipper's cabin, carefully stowed away under some clothes, I found the log-book, and a chart of the Atlantic Ocean, with the brig's course, up to a certain point, pricked off upon it; and from these two documents I learned that the brig had sailed, on such and such a date, from New York, with what, in the way of weather, progress, and so on, had befallen her, up to a date some five weeks later, whereon entries had been made in the log-book up to noon.
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