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Updated: May 22, 2025
Baird said desperately that he'd fought against it, because he believed it a booby trap to kill the Plumies so men could take their ship and fill it with air and cut it free, and then make a landing somewhere. "Damned foolishness!" rumbled the skipper. "Their ship'd begin to crumble with our air in it! If it held to a landing " Then he considered the object he'd accepted from the Plumie.
Captain Sol soon found that the cargo hadn't been well stowed and it bothered him a good deal. For, in his log-book, he wrote things like these: Aug. 27, Heavy sea from the eastward. Ship labors very badly. Sept. 1, Squally with rough, heavy sea. Ship labors very much. Sept. 10, Ship rolls and labors hard through the night. Sept. 22, Heavy gales & Squally with tremendous sea. Ship'd much water.
Their eyes meet and there is a vague glimmer of recognition. The First Man "American?" The Second Man "Yes: St. Louis." "Been over long?" "A couple of months." "What ship'd you come over in?" "The Kronprinz Friedrich." "Aha, the German line! I guess you found the grub all right." "Oh, in the main. I have eaten better, but then again, I have eaten worse."
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