Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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King Lear · Captain of the Polestar and other tales - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

I have been a good deal startled, though I feel steadier now.

Thanks to a stiff glass of brandy.

I'm hardly myself yet, however.

as his handwriting will testify.

The fact is that I have gone through a very strange experience, and am beginning to doubt whether I was justified in branding everyone on board as madmen or

Because they profess to have seen things which did not seem reasonable to my understanding.

Pshaw.

I am a fool to let such a trifle unnerve me, and yet, coming as it does, after all these alarms, it has an additional significance.

for I cannot doubt either Mr Manson's story or that of the mate, now that I have experienced that which I used formerly to scoff at.

After all, it was nothing very alarming, a mere sound, and that was all.

I cannot expect that anyone reading this, if anyone ever should read it,

Will sympathize with my feelings or realize the effect.

which it produced upon me at the time.

Supper was over, and I had gone on deck to have a quiet pipe before turning in.

The night was very dark, so dark that standing under the quarter boat I was unable to see the officer upon the bridge.

I think I have already mentioned the extraordinary silence which

Which prevails in these frozen seas.

In other parts of the world.

Be they ever so barren?

There is some slight vibration of the air, some faint human.

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