Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But unfortunately he overheard one of the men making an allusion to it.
and insisted upon being informed about it.
As I had expected, it brought out all his latent lunacy in an exaggerated form.
I can hardly believe that this is the same man who discoursed philosophy last night with
with the most critical acumen.
and coolest judgment.
He is pacing backwards and forwards upon the quarter deck.
Like a caged tiger, stopping now again to throw out his hands with a yearning gesture.
and stare impatiently out over the ice.
He keeps up a continual mutter to himself, and once he called out
But a little time, love, but a little time.
Poor fellow, it is sad to see a gallant seaman and accomplished gentleman reduced to such a pass, and to think that imagination and delusion can cow a mind to which real danger was but the salt of life.
Was ever a man in such a position as I between a demented captain and a ghost seeing mate?
I sometimes think I am the only really sane man aboard the vessel.
Except perhaps the second engineer.
It was a kind of ruminant.
and would care nothing for all the fiends in the Red Sea so long as they would leave him alone and not disarrange his tools.
The ice is still opening rapidly, and there is every probability of our being able to make a start tomorrow morning.
They will think I am inventing when I tell them at home all the strange things that have befallen me.
twelve PM
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