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Updated: May 17, 2025
When a man dies at his oar on that deck he isn't thrown overboard, but cut up in his chains and stuffed through the oar-hole in little pieces." "Why?" I demanded, amazed, not so much at the information as the tone of command in which it was flung out. "To save trouble and to frighten the others.
When a man dies at his oar on that deck he isn't thrown overboard, but cut up in his chains and stuffed through the oar-hole in little pieces." "Why?" I demanded, amazed, not so much at the information as the tone of command in which it was flung out. "To save trouble and to frighten the others.
The oars were loaded with lead in the handles, and near the point of balance hung to pliable thongs, making possible the delicate touch called feathering, but, at the same time, increasing the need of skill, since an eccentric wave might at any moment catch a heedless fellow and hurl him from his seat. Each oar-hole was a vent through which the laborer opposite it had his plenty of sweet air.
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