Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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may lead them to do something rash.
Even the harpooners, who are the oldest and steadiest among them, are joining in the general agitation.
Apart from this absurd outbreak of superstition, things are looking rather more cheerful.
The pack which was forming to the south of us has partly cleared away and
And the water is so warm as to lead me to believe that we are lying in one of those branches of the Gulf Stream.
Which runs up between Greenland and Spitzbergen.
There are numerous small medusa and seal lemons about the ship.
with abundance of shrimps, so that there is every possibility of fish being sighted.
Indeed, one was seen blowing about dinner time and
but in such a position that it was impossible for the boats to follow it.
September thirteenth.
had an interesting conversation with the chief mate, Mr Milne, upon the bridge.
It seems that our captain is as great an enigma to the seamen and even to the owners of the vessels.
as he has been to me.
Mr.
Milne tells me that when the ship is paid off upon returning from a voyage, Captain Craigie disappears and is not seen again until the approach of another season.
When he walks quietly into the office of the company and asks whether his services will be required.
He has no friend in Dundee, nor does anyone pretend to be acquainted with his early history.
His position depends entirely upon his skill as a seaman.
And the name for courage and coolness which he had earned in the capacity of mate.
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