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Updated: May 15, 2025
I knew how much happiness a line from me would bestow, and I had the pleasure to inform them, also, that I was promoted to be second-mate the second-mate of the American brig having shipped as my successor in the rank of third-officer. The parting on the wide ocean, that night, was solemn, and, in some respects, sad.
In the first place, the drowning man was close upon half a mile astern; in the second place, others had seen the hat and the white coat as clearly as I; among them the third-officer, standing upright in the stern of the boat which, with commendable promptitude had already been swung into the water.
Peering intently into the wake of the ship, I was but dimly aware of the ever growing turmoil around me, of the swift mustering of a boat's crew, of the shouted orders of the third-officer. Suddenly I saw it the sight which was to haunt me for succeeding days and nights. Half in the streak of the wake and half out of it, I perceived the sleeve of a white jacket, and, near to it, a soft felt hat.
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