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Updated: May 25, 2025
Old and terrible experiences murders and mutinies; distresses on rafts; thirsts and screaming madnesses; naked men howling on hen-coops under waste skies, sea-birds wailing desolately overhead; great ships, man-forsaken, God-forgotten, wallowing blindly amid green mountains that flowed and foamed upon them shadows in shoals, they rose, glimmered, and were gone in the twilight waters of returning consciousness.
Since the whistle of the steamship had died away in the distance, two days before, no sound had come to us out of the fog but the voices of the wind and the swash of the waves. I knew the chart of the Banks and had a general idea as to where we were. There is a great barren tract on the Banks where few fish are found and fishermen seldom go, and we had drifted into this man-forsaken place.
In short, he was going headlong to destruction and no one seemed to think him worth the saving. Skulking by day, prowling by night hungry, dirty, beaten and sworn at no wonder that he seemed God-forsaken as well as man-forsaken. Mr. Sargent had a large store in Rutgers street.
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