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Updated: May 17, 2025
Here was I, a youth twenty-two years old, husky and sound physically, free in a foreign country which I felt an instant liking for, and no longer beholden to the Stars and Stripes for which I was quite ready to fight but not to serve in durance vile on a plague-ship.
Then he turned and studied the dark hull of the steamer as she loomed up closer in front of him. He could see her only in outline, at first, picked out here and there by a light. But there seemed something disheartening, something intimidating, in her very quietness, something suggestive of a plague-ship deserted by crew and passengers alike.
You see no plague-ship driving through a stormy sea; you hear no groans of despair; you see no corpses thrown over the bulwarks; you mark not the wringing hands and torn hair of widows and orphans: all is a blank. And one of these blanks I have but filled up, in recounting the details of the Highlander's calamity.
Watkins of Hartford or Adams, as he persisted in calling himself reclined in his berth, his unlocked treasures carelessly scattered about him. "Hold fast to the all good," counselled Bean revengefully. "Uh hah!" said Watkins or Adams, not doing so. Bean fled. Everybody was getting it. The little old steamer was becoming nothing but a plague-ship.
But, at intervals, the gray albatross, peculiar to these seas, came flapping his immense wings over us, and then skimmed away silently as if from a plague-ship. Or flights of the tropic bird, known among seamen as the "boatswain," wheeled round and round us, whistling shrilly as they flew.
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