N’a plus rien a dissimuler.
— Quinault-Atys.
OF my country and of my family I have little to say. Ill usage and length of years have driven me from the one, and estranged1 me from the other. Hereditary2 wealth afforded me an education of no common order, and a contemplative turn of mind enabled me to methodize the stores which early study very diligently3 garnered4 up. — Beyond all things, the study of the German moralists gave me great delight; not from any ill-advised admiration5 of their eloquent6 madness, but from the ease with which my habits of rigid7 thought enabled me to detect their falsities. I have often been reproached with the aridity8 of my genius; a deficiency of imagination has been imputed9 to me as a crime; and the Pyrrhonism of my opinions has at all times rendered me notorious. Indeed, a strong relish11 for physical philosophy has, I fear, tinctured my mind with a very common error of this age — I mean the habit of referring occurrences, even the least susceptible12 of such reference, to the principles of that science. Upon the whole, no person could be less liable than myself to be led away from the severe precincts of truth by the ignes fatui of superstition13. I have thought proper to premise14 thus much, lest the incredible tale I have to tell should be considered rather the raving15 of a crude imagination, than the positive experience of a mind to which the reveries of fancy have been a dead letter and a nullity.
After many years spent in foreign travel, I sailed in the year 18 — from the port of Batavia, in the rich and populous17 island of Java, on a voyage to the Archipelago of the Sunda islands. I went as passenger — having no other inducement than a kind of nervous restlessness which haunted me as a fiend.
Our vessel18 was a beautiful ship of about four hundred tons, copper-fastened, and built at Bombay of Malabar teak. She was freighted with cotton-wool and oil, from the Lachadive islands. We had also on board coir, jaggeree, ghee, cocoa-nuts, and a few cases of opium19. The stowage was clumsily done, and the vessel consequently crank.
We got under way with a mere20 breath of wind, and for many days stood along the eastern coast of Java, without any other incident to beguile21 the monotony of our course than the occasional meeting with some of the small grabs of the Archipelago to which we were bound.
One evening, leaning over the taffrail, I observed a very singular, isolated22 cloud, to the N.W. It was remarkable23, as well for its color, as from its being the first we had seen since our departure from Batavia. I watched it attentively24 until sunset, when it spread all at once to the eastward25 and westward26, girting in the horizon with a narrow strip of vapor27, and looking like a long line of low beach. My notice was soon afterwards attracted by the dusky-red appearance of the moon, and the peculiar28 character of the sea. The latter was undergoing a rapid change, and the water seemed more than usually transparent29. Although I could distinctly see the bottom, yet, heaving the lead, I found the ship in fifteen fathoms30. The air now became intolerably hot, and was loaded with spiral exhalations similar to those arising from heat iron. As night came on, every breath of wind died away, an more entire calm it is impossible to conceive. The flame of a candle burned upon the poop without the least perceptible motion, and a long hair, held between the finger and thumb, hung without the possibility of detecting a vibration31. However, as the captain said he could perceive no indication of danger, and as we were drifting in bodily to shore, he ordered the sails to be furled, and the anchor let go. No watch was set, and the crew, consisting principally of Malays, stretched themselves deliberately32 upon deck. I went below — not without a full presentiment33 of evil. Indeed, every appearance warranted me in apprehending34 a Simoom. I told the captain my fears; but he paid no attention to what I said, and left me without deigning35 to give a reply. My uneasiness, however, prevented me from sleeping, and about midnight I went upon deck. — As I placed my foot upon the upper step of the companion-ladder, I was startled by a loud, humming noise, like that occasioned by the rapid revolution of a mill-wheel, and before I could ascertain36 its meaning, I found the ship quivering to its centre. In the next instant, a wilderness37 of foam38 hurled40 us upon our beam-ends, and, rushing over us fore16 and aft, swept the entire decks from stem to stern.
The extreme fury of the blast proved, in a great measure, the salvation41 of the ship. Although completely water-logged, yet, as her masts had gone by the board, she rose, after a minute, heavily from the sea, and, staggering awhile beneath the immense pressure of the tempest, finally righted.
By what miracle I escaped destruction, it is impossible to say. Stunned42 by the shock of the water, I found myself, upon recovery, jammed in between the stern-post and rudder. With great difficulty I gained my feet, and looking dizzily around, was, at first, struck with the idea of our being among breakers; so terrific, beyond the wildest imagination, was the whirlpool of mountainous and foaming43 ocean within which we were engulfed44. After a while, I heard the voice of an old Swede, who had shipped with us at the moment of our leaving port. I hallooed to him with all my strength, and presently he came reeling aft. We soon discovered that we were the sole survivors46 of the accident. All on deck, with the exception of ourselves, had been swept overboard; — the captain and mates must have perished as they slept, for the cabins were deluged47 with water. Without assistance, we could expect to do little for the security of the ship, and our exertions48 were at first paralyzed by the momentary49 expectation of going down. Our cable had, of course, parted like pack-thread, at the first breath of the hurricane, or we should have been instantaneously overwhelmed. We scudded50 with frightful51 velocity52 before the sea, and the water made clear breaches53 over us. The frame-work of our stern was shattered excessively, and, in almost every respect, we had received considerable injury; but to our extreme Joy we found the pumps unchoked, and that we had made no great shifting of our ballast. The main fury of the blast had already blown over, and we apprehended54 little danger from the violence of the wind; but we looked forward to its total cessation with dismay; well believing, that, in our shattered condition, we should inevitably55 perish in the tremendous swell56 which would ensue. But this very just apprehension57 seemed by no means likely to be soon verified. For five entire days and nights — during which our only subsistence was a small quantity of jaggeree, procured58 with great difficulty from the forecastle — the hulk flew at a rate defying computation, before rapidly succeeding flaws of wind, which, without equalling the first violence of the Simoom, were still more terrific than any tempest I had before encountered. Our course for the first four days was, with trifling59 variations, S.E. and by S.; and we must have run down the coast of New Holland. — On the fifth day the cold became extreme, although the wind had hauled round a point more to the northward60. — The sun arose with a sickly yellow lustre61, and clambered a very few degrees above the horizon — emitting no decisive light. — There were no clouds apparent, yet the wind was upon the increase, and blew with a fitful and unsteady fury. About noon, as nearly as we could guess, our attention was again arrested by the appearance of the sun. It gave out no light, properly so called, but a dull and sullen62 glow without reflection, as if all its rays were polarized. Just before sinking within the turgid sea, its central fires suddenly went out, as if hurriedly extinguished by some unaccountable power. It was a dim, sliver-like rim10, alone, as it rushed down the unfathomable ocean.
We waited in vain for the arrival of the sixth day — that day to me has not arrived — to the Swede, never did arrive. Thenceforward we were enshrouded in patchy darkness, so that we could not have seen an object at twenty paces from the ship. Eternal night continued to envelop63 us, all unrelieved by the phosphoric sea-brilliancy to which we had been accustomed in the tropics. We observed too, that, although the tempest continued to rage with unabated violence, there was no longer to be discovered the usual appearance of surf, or foam, which had hitherto attended us. All around were horror, and thick gloom, and a black sweltering desert of ebony. — Superstitious64 terror crept by degrees into the spirit of the old Swede, and my own soul was wrapped up in silent wonder. We neglected all care of the ship, as worse than useless, and securing ourselves, as well as possible, to the stump65 of the mizen-mast, looked out bitterly into the world of ocean. We had no means of calculating time, nor could we form any guess of our situation. We were, however, well aware of having made farther to the southward than any previous navigators, and felt great amazement66 at not meeting with the usual impediments of ice. In the meantime every moment threatened to be our last — every mountainous billow hurried to overwhelm us. The swell surpassed anything I had imagined possible, and that we were not instantly buried is a miracle. My companion spoke67 of the lightness of our cargo68, and reminded me of the excellent qualities of our ship; but I could not help feeling the utter hopelessness of hope itself, and prepared myself gloomily for that death which I thought nothing could defer69 beyond an hour, as, with every knot of way the ship made, the swelling70 of the black stupendous seas became more dismally71 appalling72. At times we gasped73 for breath at an elevation74 beyond the albatross — at times became dizzy with the velocity of our descent into some watery75 hell, where the air grew stagnant76, and no sound disturbed the slumbers77 of the kraken.
We were at the bottom of one of these abysses, when a quick scream from my companion broke fearfully upon the night. “See! see!” cried he, shrieking78 in my ears, “Almighty God! see! see!” As he spoke, I became aware of a dull, sullen glare of red light which streamed down the sides of the vast chasm79 where we lay, and threw a fitful brilliancy upon our deck. Casting my eyes upwards80, I beheld81 a spectacle which froze the current of my blood. At a terrific height directly above us, and upon the very verge82 of the precipitous descent, hovered83 a gigantic ship of, perhaps, four thousand tons. Although upreared upon the summit of a wave more than a hundred times her own altitude, her apparent size exceeded that of any ship of the line or East Indiaman in existence. Her huge hull85 was of a deep dingy86 black, unrelieved by any of the customary carvings87 of a ship. A single row of brass88 cannon89 protruded90 from her open ports, and dashed from their polished surfaces the fires of innumerable battle-lanterns, which swung to and fro about her rigging. But what mainly inspired us with horror and astonishment91, was that she bore up under a press of sail in the very teeth of that supernatural sea, and of that ungovernable hurricane. When we first discovered her, her bows were alone to be seen, as she rose slowly from the dim and horrible gulf45 beyond her. For a moment of intense terror she paused upon the giddy pinnacle92, as if in contemplation of her own sublimity93, then trembled and tottered94, and — came down.
At this instant, I know not what sudden self-possession came over my spirit. Staggering as far aft as I could, I awaited fearlessly the ruin that was to overwhelm. Our own vessel was at length ceasing from her struggles, and sinking with her head to the sea. The shock of the descending95 mass struck her, consequently, in that portion of her frame which was already under water, and the inevitable96 result was to hurl39 me, with irresistible97 violence, upon the rigging of the stranger.
As I fell, the ship hove in stays, and went about; and to the confusion ensuing I attributed my escape from the notice of the crew. With little difficulty I made my way unperceived to the main hatchway, which was partially98 open, and soon found an opportunity of secreting99 myself in the hold. Why I did so I can hardly tell. An indefinite sense of awe100, which at first sight of the navigators of the ship had taken hold of my mind, was perhaps the principle of my concealment101. I was unwilling102 to trust myself with a race of people who had offered, to the cursory103 glance I had taken, so many points of vague novelty, doubt, and apprehension. I therefore thought proper to contrive104 a hiding-place in the hold. This I did by removing a small portion of the shifting-boards, in such a manner as to afford me a convenient retreat between the huge timbers of the ship.
I had scarcely completed my work, when a footstep in the hold forced me to make use of it. A man passed by my place of concealment with a feeble and unsteady gait. I could not see his face, but had an opportunity of observing his general appearance. There was about it an evidence of great age and infirmity. His knees tottered beneath a load of years, and his entire frame quivered under the burthen. He muttered to himself, in a low broken tone, some words of a language which I could not understand, and groped in a corner among a pile of singular-looking instruments, and decayed charts of navigation. His manner was a wild mixture of the peevishness106 of second childhood, and the solemn dignity of a God. He at length went on deck, and I saw him no more.
A feeling, for which I have no name, has taken possession of my soul — a sensation which will admit of no analysis, to which the lessons of bygone times are inadequate107, and for which I fear futurity itself will offer me no key. To a mind constituted like my own, the latter consideration is an evil. I shall never — I know that I shall never — be satisfied with regard to the nature of my conceptions. Yet it is not wonderful that these conceptions are indefinite, since they have their origin in sources so utterly108 novel. A new sense — a new entity109 is added to my soul.
It is long since I first trod the deck of this terrible ship, and the rays of my destiny are, I think, gathering110 to a focus. Incomprehensible men! Wrapped up in meditations112 of a kind which I cannot divine, they pass me by unnoticed. Concealment is utter folly113 on my part, for the people will not see. It was but just now that I passed directly before the eyes of the mate — it was no long while ago that I ventured into the captain’s own private cabin, and took thence the materials with which I write, and have written. I shall from time to time continue this Journal. It is true that I may not find an opportunity of transmitting it to the world, but I will not fall to make the endeavour. At the last moment I will enclose the MS. in a bottle, and cast it within the sea.
An incident has occurred which has given me new room for meditation111. Are such things the operation of ungoverned Chance? I had ventured upon deck and thrown myself down, without attracting any notice, among a pile of ratlin-stuff and old sails in the bottom of the yawl. While musing114 upon the singularity of my fate, I unwittingly daubed with a tar-brush the edges of a neatly-folded studding-sail which lay near me on a barrel. The studding-sail is now bent115 upon the ship, and the thoughtless touches of the brush are spread out into the word DISCOVERY.
I have made many observations lately upon the structure of the vessel. Although well armed, she is not, I think, a ship of war. Her rigging, build, and general equipment, all negative a supposition of this kind. What she is not, I can easily perceive — what she is I fear it is impossible to say. I know not how it is, but in scrutinizing116 her strange model and singular cast of spars, her huge size and overgrown suits of canvas, her severely117 simple bow and antiquated118 stern, there will occasionally flash across my mind a sensation of familiar things, and there is always mixed up with such indistinct shadows of recollection, an unaccountable memory of old foreign chronicles and ages long ago. I have been looking at the timbers of the ship. She is built of a material to which I am a stranger. There is a peculiar character about the wood which strikes me as rendering119 it unfit for the purpose to which it has been applied120. I mean its extreme porousness121, considered independently by the worm-eaten condition which is a consequence of navigation in these seas, and apart from the rottenness attendant upon age. It will appear perhaps an observation somewhat over-curious, but this wood would have every, characteristic of Spanish oak, if Spanish oak were distended122 by any unnatural123 means.
In reading the above sentence a curious apothegm of an old weather-beaten Dutch navigator comes full upon my recollection. “It is as sure,” he was wont124 to say, when any doubt was entertained of his veracity125, “as sure as there is a sea where the ship itself will grow in bulk like the living body of the seaman126.”
About an hour ago, I made bold to thrust myself among a group of the crew. They paid me no manner of attention, and, although I stood in the very midst of them all, seemed utterly unconscious of my presence. Like the one I had at first seen in the hold, they all bore about them the marks of a hoary127 old age. Their knees trembled with infirmity; their shoulders were bent double with decrepitude128; their shrivelled skins rattled129 in the wind; their voices were low, tremulous and broken; their eyes glistened130 with the rheum of years; and their gray hairs streamed terribly in the tempest. Around them, on every part of the deck, lay scattered131 mathematical instruments of the most quaint132 and obsolete133 construction.
I mentioned some time ago the bending of a studding-sail. From that period the ship, being thrown dead off the wind, has continued her terrific course due south, with every rag of canvas packed upon her, from her trucks to her lower studding-sail booms, and rolling every moment her top-gallant yard-arms into the most appalling hell of water which it can enter into the mind of a man to imagine. I have just left the deck, where I find it impossible to maintain a footing, although the crew seem to experience little inconvenience. It appears to me a miracle of miracles that our enormous bulk is not swallowed up at once and forever. We are surely doomed134 to hover84 continually upon the brink135 of Eternity136, without taking a final plunge137 into the abyss. From billows a thousand times more stupendous than any I have ever seen, we glide138 away with the facility of the arrowy sea-gull; and the colossal139 waters rear their heads above us like demons140 of the deep, but like demons confined to simple threats and forbidden to destroy. I am led to attribute these frequent escapes to the only natural cause which can account for such effect. — I must suppose the ship to be within the influence of some strong current, or impetuous under-tow.
I have seen the captain face to face, and in his own cabin — but, as I expected, he paid me no attention. Although in his appearance there is, to a casual observer, nothing which might bespeak141 him more or less than man-still a feeling of irrepressible reverence142 and awe mingled143 with the sensation of wonder with which I regarded him. In stature144 he is nearly my own height; that is, about five feet eight inches. He is of a well-knit and compact frame of body, neither robust145 nor remarkably146 otherwise. But it is the singularity of the expression which reigns147 upon the face — it is the intense, the wonderful, the thrilling evidence of old age, so utter, so extreme, which excites within my spirit a sense — a sentiment ineffable148. His forehead, although little wrinkled, seems to bear upon it the stamp of a myriad149 of years. — His gray hairs are records of the past, and his grayer eyes are Sybils of the future. The cabin floor was thickly strewn with strange, iron-clasped folios, and mouldering150 instruments of science, and obsolete long-forgotten charts. His head was bowed down upon his hands, and he pored, with a fiery151 unquiet eye, over a paper which I took to be a commission, and which, at all events, bore the signature of a monarch152. He muttered to himself, as did the first seaman whom I saw in the hold, some low peevish105 syllables153 of a foreign tongue, and although the speaker was close at my elbow, his voice seemed to reach my ears from the distance of a mile.
The ship and all in it are imbued154 with the spirit of Eld. The crew glide to and fro like the ghosts of buried centuries; their eyes have an eager and uneasy meaning; and when their fingers fall athwart my path in the wild glare of the battle-lanterns, I feel as I have never felt before, although I have been all my life a dealer155 in antiquities156, and have imbibed157 the shadows of fallen columns at Balbec, and Tadmor, and Persepolis, until my very soul has become a ruin.
When I look around me I feel ashamed of my former apprehensions158. If I trembled at the blast which has hitherto attended us, shall I not stand aghast at a warring of wind and ocean, to convey any idea of which the words tornado159 and simoom are trivial and ineffective? All in the immediate160 vicinity of the ship is the blackness of eternal night, and a chaos161 of foamless162 water; but, about a league on either side of us, may be seen, indistinctly and at intervals163, stupendous ramparts of ice, towering away into the desolate164 sky, and looking like the walls of the universe.
As I imagined, the ship proves to be in a current; if that appellation165 can properly be given to a tide which, howling and shrieking by the white ice, thunders on to the southward with a velocity like the headlong dashing of a cataract166.
To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate167 the mysteries of these awful regions, predominates even over my despair, and will reconcile me to the most hideous168 aspect of death. It is evident that we are hurrying onwards to some exciting knowledge — some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment169 is destruction. Perhaps this current leads us to the southern pole itself. It must be confessed that a supposition apparently170 so wild has every probability in its favor.
The crew pace the deck with unquiet and tremulous step; but there is upon their countenances171 an expression more of the eagerness of hope than of the apathy172 of despair.
In the meantime the wind is still in our poop, and, as we carry a crowd of canvas, the ship is at times lifted bodily from out the sea — Oh, horror upon horror! the ice opens suddenly to the right, and to the left, and we are whirling dizzily, in immense concentric circles, round and round the borders of a gigantic amphitheatre, the summit of whose walls is lost in the darkness and the distance. But little time will be left me to ponder upon my destiny — the circles rapidly grow small — we are plunging173 madly within the grasp of the whirlpool — and amid a roaring, and bellowing174, and thundering of ocean and of tempest, the ship is quivering, oh God! and — going down.
NOTE. — The “MS. Found in a Bottle,” was originally published in 1831 1833, and it was not until many years afterwards that I became acquainted with the maps of Mercator, in which the ocean is represented as rushing, by four mouths, into the (northern) Polar Gulf, to be absorbed into the bowels175 of the earth; the Pole itself being represented by a black rock, towering to a prodigious176 height.
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| n.面容( countenance的名词复数 )；表情；镇静；道义支持 | |
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apathy
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| n.漠不关心，无动于衷；冷淡 | |
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| adj.跳进的，突进的v.颠簸( plunge的现在分词 )；暴跌；骤降；突降 | |
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bellowing
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| v.发出吼叫声，咆哮（尤指因痛苦）( bellow的现在分词 )；（愤怒地）说出（某事），大叫 | |
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bowels
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