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Updated: May 24, 2025
Now here, instead of thickly-templed India, suppose we write the still-vexed Bermoothes Good, good! It fits in well enough. . . ." And so in clerkly fashion he sat about the accomplishment of his stint of labor in time for dinner.
Richard sprang from his boat into the water. Pressing a hand beneath her foot, which she had thrust against the crumbling wet sides of the bank to save herself, he enabled her to recover her balance, and gain safe earth, whither he followed her. He had landed on an island of the still-vexed Bermoothes.
of fatal rocks, and the "still-vexed Bermoothes;" of great whirlpools, and the water-spout; of sunken ships, and sumless treasures swallowed up in the unrestoring depths: of fishes and quaint monsters, to which all that is terrible on earth Be but as buggs to frighten babes withal, Compared with the creatures in the sea's entral;
The still-vexed Bermoothes, Barbadoes, and all the Indies were spoken of; ports to the north and ports to the south, pirate craft and sunken treasure, a flight, a fight, a chase at sea. The men from Norfolk talked of the great Dismal and its trees of juniper and cypress, the traders of trading, the masters from William and Mary of the humanities.
Well: to-morrow, God willing, the evasion shall be ours, while he writhes howling. But why do we never once combine seize on the ship, fling our masters into the sea, and steer for some pleasant isle far down under the Line, beyond the still-vexed Bermoothes? When ho for feasting! Hey for tobacco and free-quarters!
Richard sprang from his boat into the water. Pressing a hand beneath her foot, which she had thrust against the crumbling wet sides of the bank to save herself, he enabled her to recover her balance, and gain safe earth, whither he followed her. He had landed on an island of the still-vexed Bermoothes.
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