ship-mutiny

Updated: June 2, 2025

We think of his home on the far-away island of Nantucket, with the loving mother, the proud father, the doting old grandfather all cast aside, and probably forever, by the momentary folly of a boy; then of his connection with the ship-mutiny unquestionably one of the most horrible positions in which it is ever the fate of man to stand; the death of his friend and his friend's father; the shipwreck, and the long, lonely days of watching, in hunger and thirst, for a sail; the final loss of all companions save a gorilla-like half-breed, whose animal instinct of love and fidelity fell about the poor boy like a protecting garment.

Charles Romyn Dake - A Strange Discovery