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Updated: May 5, 2025
The next entry, the first for the sea-day of May 13th, is: "At 12.20 P.M. lost sight of Martinique."
Up and down in such old specter houses one loves to wander; and so much the more, if the place be haunted by some marvelous story. And during the drowsy stillness of the tropical sea-day, very much such a fancy had I, for prying about our little brigantine, whose tragic hull was haunted by the memory of the massacre, of which it still bore innumerable traces.
They flashed into view at one end of the arched night, like to compare great things with small the gleamings of Guy Fawkes's lantern in the vaults of the Parliament House. Before long, what seemed a live ember rested for a moment on the rim of the ocean, and at last the blood-red sun stood full and round in the level East, and the long sea-day began.
You asked me the second time for the run of to-day for the last twenty-four hours." "And that was what I asked you the first time," answered Louis. "I beg your pardon, but you asked me simply for the run to-day." "Isn't that the same thing?" "Will you please to tell me how many hours there are in a sea-day?" asked Scott, becoming more serious. "That depends," answered Louis, laughing.
The Spaniards still observe the old-fashioned sea-day of a century ago, abandoned long since by the British and ourselves, according to which May 12th begins at noon of May 11th.
The young magnate was eighteen years old, and was walking on the promenade deck of the steamer with a beautiful young lady of sixteen when he asked for information in regard to the run, or the distance made by the ship during the last sea-day.
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