Jim on the bridge was penetrated17 by the great certitude of unbounded safety and peace that could be read on the silent aspect of nature like the certitude of fostering love upon the placid18 tenderness of a mother's face. Below the roof of awnings19, surrendered to the wisdom of white men and to their courage, trusting the power of their unbelief and the iron shell of their fire-ship, the pilgrims of an exacting21 faith slept on mats, on blankets, on bare planks23, on every deck, in all the dark corners, wrapped in dyed cloths, muffled24 in soiled rags, with their heads resting on small bundles, with their faces pressed to bent25 forearms: the men, the women, the children; the old with the young, the decrepit26 with the lusty -- all equal before sleep, death's brother.
A draught27 of air, fanned from forward by the speed of the ship, passed steadily28 through the long gloom between the high bulwarks29, swept over the rows of prone30 bodies; a few dim flames in globelamps were hung short here and there under the ridge-poles, and in the blurred31 circles of light thrown down and trembling slightly to the unceasing vibration32 of the ship appeared a chin upturned, two closed eyelids33, a dark hand with silver rings, a meagre limb draped in a torn covering, a head bent back, a naked foot, a throat bared and stretched as if offering itself to the knife. The well-to-do had made for their families shelters with heavy boxes and dusty mats; the poor reposed34 side by side with all they had on earth tied up in a rag under their heads; the lone35 old men slept, with drawnup legs, upon their prayer-carpets, with their hands over their ears and one elbow on each side of the face; a father, his shoulders up and his knees under his forehead, dozed37 dejectedly by a boy who slept on his back with tousled hair and one arm commandingly extended; a woman covered from head to foot, like a corpse39, with a piece of white sheeting, had a naked child in the hollow of each arm; the Arab's belongings40, piled right aft, made a heavy mound41 of broken outlines, with a cargo-lamp swung above, and a great confusion of vague forms behind: gleams of paunchy brass42 pots, the foot-rest of a deck-chair, blades of spears, the straight scabbard of an old sword leaning against a heap of pillows, the spout43 of a tin coffee-pot. The patent log on the taffrail periodically rang a single tinkling44 stroke for every mile traversed on an errand of faith. Above the mass of sleepers45 a faint and patient sigh at times floated, the exhalation of a troubled dream; and short metallic46 clangs bursting out suddenly in the depths of the ship, the harsh scrape of a shovel47, the violent slam of a furnace-door, exploded brutally48, as if the men handling the mysterious things below had their breasts full of fierce anger: while the slim high hull of the steamer
went on evenly ahead, without a sway of her bare masts, cleaving49 continuously the great calm of the waters under the inaccessible50 serenity of the sky.
Jim paced athwart, and his footsteps in the vast silence were loud to his own ears, as if echoed by the watchful51 stars: his eyes, roaming about the line of the horizon, seemed to gaze hungrily into the unattainable, and did not see the shadow of the coming event. The only shadow on the sea was the shadow of the black smoke pouring heavily from the funnel52 its immense streamer, whose end was constantly dissolving in the air. Two Malays, silent and almost motionless, steered53, one on each side of the wheel, whose brass rim20 shone fragmentarily in the oval of light thrown out by the binnacle. Now and then a hand, with black fingers alternately letting go and catching54 hold of revolving55 spokes56, appeared in the illumined part; the links of wheel-chains ground heavily in the grooves57 of the barrel. Jim would glance at the compass, would glance around the unattainable horizon, would stretch himself till his joints58 cracked, with a leisurely59 twist of the body, in the very excess of well-being60; and, as if made audacious by the invincible61 aspect of the peace, he felt he cared for nothing that could happen to him to the end of his days. From time to time he glanced idly at a chart pegged62 out with four drawing-pins on a low three-legged table abaft64 the steering-gear case. The sheet of paper portraying65 the depths of the sea presented a shiny surface under the light of a bull's-eye lamp lashed66 to a stanchion, a surface as level and smooth as the glimmering67 surface of the waters. Parallel rulers with a pair of dividers reposed on it; the ship's position at last noon was marked with a small black cross, and the straight pencil-line drawn36 firmly as far as Perim figured the course of the ship -- the path of souls towards the holy place, the promise of salvation68, the reward of eternal life -- while the pencil with its sharp end touching69 the Somali coast lay round and still like a naked ship's spar floating in the pool of a sheltered dock. 'How steady she goes,' thought Jim with wonder, with something like gratitude70 for this high peac
e of sea and sky. At such times his thoughts would be full of valorous deeds: he loved these dreams and the success of his imaginary achievements. They were the best parts of life, its secret truth, its hidden reality. They had a gorgeous virility72, the charm of vagueness, they passed before him with an heroic tread; they carried his soul away with them and made it drunk with the divine philtre of an unbounded confidence in itself. There was nothing he could not face. He was so pleased with the idea that he smiled, keeping perfunctorily his eyes ahead; and when he happened to glance back he saw the white streak73 of the wake drawn as straight by the ship's keel upon the sea as the black line drawn by the pencil upon the chart.
The ash-buckets racketed, clanking up and down the stoke-hold ventilators, and this tin-pot clatter74 warned him the end of his watch was near. He sighed with content, with regret as well at having to part from that serenity which fostered the adventurous75 freedom of his thoughts. He was a little sleepy too, and felt a pleasurable languor76 running through every limb as though all the blood in his body had turned to warm milk. His skipper had come up noiselessly, in pyjamas77 and with his sleeping-jacket flung wide open. Red of face, only half awake, the left eye partly closed, the right staring stupid and glassy, he hung his big head over the chart and scratched his ribs78 sleepily. There was something obscene in the sight of his naked flesh. His bared breast glistened79 soft and greasy80 as though he had sweated out his fat in his sleep. He pronounced a professional remark in a voice harsh and dead, resembling the rasping sound of a wood-file on the edge of a plank22; the fold of his double chin hung like a bag triced up close under the hinge of his jaw81. Jim started, and his answer was full of deference82; but the odious83 and fleshy figure, as though seen for the first time in a revealing moment, fixed84 itself in his memory for ever as the incarnation of everything vile85 and base that lurks86 in the world we love: in our own hearts we trust for our salvation, in the men that surround us, in the sights that fill our eyes, in the sounds that fill our ears, and in the air that fills our lungs.
The thin gold shaving of the moon floating slowly downwards87 had lost itself on the darkened surface of the waters, and the eternity88 beyond the sky seemed to come down nearer to the earth, with the augmented89 glitter of the stars, with the more profound sombreness in the lustre90 of the half-transparent dome91 covering the flat disc of an opaque92 sea. The ship moved so smoothly93 that her onward94 motion was imperceptible to the senses of men, as though she had been a crowded planet speeding through the dark spaces of ether behind the swarm95 of suns, in the appalling96 and calm solitudes97 awaiting the breath of future creations. 'Hot is no name for it down below,' said a voice.
Jim smiled without looking round. The skipper presented an unmoved breadth of back: it was the renegade's trick to appear pointedly98 unaware99 of your existence unless it suited his purpose to turn at you with a devouring100 glare before he let loose a torrent101 of foamy102, abusive jargon103 that came like a gush104 from a sewer105. Now he emitted only a sulky grunt106; the second engineer at the head of the bridge-ladder, kneading with damp palms a dirty sweat-rag, unabashed, continued the tale of his complaints. The sailors had a good time of it up here, and what was the use of them in the world he would be blowed if he could see. The poor devils of engineers had to get the ship along anyhow, and they could very well do the rest too; by gosh they -- 'Shut up!' growled107 the German stolidly108. 'Oh yes! Shut up -- and when anything goes wrong you fly to us, don't you?' went on the other. He was more than half cooked, he expected; but anyway, now, he did not mind how much he sinned, because these last three days he had passed through a fine course of training for the place where the bad boys go when they die -- b'gosh, he had -- besides being made jolly well deaf by the blasted racket below. The durned, compound, surface-condensing, rotten scrapheap rattled109 and banged down there like an old deck-winch, only more so; and what made him risk his life every night and day that God made amongst the refuse of a breaking-up yard flying round at fifty-seven revolutions, was more than he could tell. He must have been born reckless, b'gosh. He . . . 'Where did you get drink?' inquired the German, very savage110; but motionless in the light of the binnacle, like a clumsy effigy111 of a man cut out of a block of fat. Jim went on smiling at the retreating horizon; his heart was full of generous impulses, and his thought was contemplating112 his own superiority. 'Drink!' repeated the engineer with amiable113 scorn: he was hanging on with both hands to the rail, a shadowy figure with flexible legs. 'Not from you, ca ptain. You're far too mean, b'gosh. You would le
t a good man die sooner than give him a drop of schnapps. That's what you Germans call economy. Penny wise, pound foolish.' He became sentimental114. The chief had given him a four-finger nip about ten o'clock -- 'only one, s'elp me!' -- good old chief; but as to getting the old fraud out of his bunk115 -- a five-ton crane couldn't do it. Not it. Not to-night anyhow. He was sleeping sweetly like a little child, with a bottle of prime brandy under his pillow. From the thick throat of the commander of the Patna came a low rumble116, on which the sound of the word Schwein fluttered high and low like a capricious feather in a faint stir of air. He and the chief engineer had been cronies for a good few years -- serving the same jovial117, crafty118, old Chinaman, with horn-rimmed goggles119 and strings120 of red silk plaited into the venerable grey hairs of his pigtail. The quay-side opinion in the Patna's home-port was that these two in the way of brazen121 peculation122 'had done together pretty well everything you can think of.' Outwardly they were badly matched: one dull-eyed, malevolent123, and of soft fleshy curves; the other lean, all hollows, with a head long and bony like the head of an old horse, with sunken cheeks, with sunken temples, with an indifferent glazed124 glance of sunken eyes. He had been stranded125 out East somewhere -- in Canton, in Shanghai, or perhaps in Yokohama; he probably did not care to remember himself the exact locality, nor yet the cause of his shipwreck126. He had been, in mercy to his youth, kicked quietly out of his ship twenty years ago or more, and it might have been so much worse for him that the memory of the episode had in it hardly a trace of misfortune. Then, steam navigation expanding in these seas and men of his craft being scarce at first, he had 'got on' after a sort. He was eager to let strangers know in a dismal127 mumble128 that he was 'an old stager out here.' When he moved, a skeleton seemed to sway loose in his c lothes; his walk was mere129 wandering, and he was given to wander thus around the engine-room skyl
ight, smoking, without relish130, doctored tobacco in a brass bowl at the end of a cherrywood stem four feet long, with the imbecile gravity of a thinker evolving a system of philosophy from the hazy131 glimpse of a truth. He was usually anything but free with his private store of liquor; but on that night he had departed from his principles, so that his second, a weak-headed child of Wapping, what with the unexpectedness of the treat and the strength of the stuff, had become very happy, cheeky, and talkative. The fury of the New South Wales German was extreme; he puffed132 like an exhaust-pipe, and Jim, faintly amused by the scene, was impatient for the time when he could get below: the last ten minutes of the watch were irritating like a gun that hangs fire; those men did not belong to the world of heroic adventure; they weren't bad chaps though. Even the skipper himself . . . His gorge71 rose at the mass of panting flesh from which issued gurgling mutters, a cloudy trickle133 of filthy134 expressions; but he was too pleasurably languid to dislike actively135 this or any other thing. The quality of these men did not matter; he rubbed shoulders with them, but they could not touch him; he shared the air they breathed, but he was different.... Would the skipper go for the engineer? ... The life was easy and he was too sure of himself -- too sure of himself to . . . The line dividing his meditation136 from a surreptitious doze38 on his feet was thinner than a thread in a spider's web.
The second engineer was coming by easy transitions to the consideration of his finances and of his courage.
'Who's drunk? I? No, no, captain! That won't do. You ought to know by this time the chief ain't free-hearted enough to make a sparrow drunk, b'gosh. I've never been the worse for liquor in my life; the stuff ain't made yet that would make me drunk. I could drink liquid fire against your whisky peg63 for peg, b'gosh, and keep as cool as a cucumber. If I thought I was drunk I would jump overboard -- do away with myself, b'gosh. I would! Straight! And I won't go off the bridge. Where do you expect me to take the air on a night like this, eh? On deck amongst that vermin down there? Likely -- ain't it! And I am not afraid of anything you can do.'
The German lifted two heavy fists to heaven and shook them a little without a word.
'I don't know what fear is,' pursued the engineer, with the enthusiasm of sincere conviction. 'I am not afraid of doing all the bloomin' work in this rotten hooker, b'gosh! And a jolly good thing for you that there are some of us about the world that aren't afraid of their lives, or where would you be -- you and this old thing here with her plates like brown paper -- brown paper, s'elp me? It's all very fine for you -- you get a power of pieces out of her one way and another; but what about me -- what do I get? A measly hundred and fifty dollars a month and find yourself. I wish to ask you respectfully -- respectfully, mind -- who wouldn't chuck a dratted job like this? 'Tain't safe, s'elp me, it ain't! Only I am one of them fearless fellows . . .'
He let go the rail and made ample gestures as if demonstrating in the air the shape and extent of his valour; his thin voice darted137 in prolonged squeaks138 upon the sea, he tiptoed back and forth139 for the better emphasis of utterance140, and suddenly pitched down headfirst as though he had been clubbed from behind. He said 'Damn!' as he tumbled; an instant of silence followed upon his screeching141: Jim and the skipper staggered forward by common accord, and catching themselves up, stood very stiff and still gazing, amazed, at the undisturbed level of the sea. Then they looked upwards142 at the stars.
What had happened? The wheezy thump143 of the engines went on. Had the earth been checked in her course? They could not understand; and suddenly the calm sea, the sky without a cloud, appeared formidably insecure in their immobility, as if poised144 on the brow of yawning destruction. The engineer rebounded145 vertically146 full length and collapsed147 again into a vague heap. This heap said 'What's that?' in the muffled accents of profound grief. A faint noise as of thunder, of thunder infinitely148 remote, less than a sound, hardly more than a vibration, passed slowly, and the ship quivered in response, as if the thunder had growled deep down in the water. The eyes of the two Malays at the wheel glittered towards the white men, but their dark hands remained closed on the spokes. The sharp hull driving on its way seemed to rise a few inches in succession through its whole length, as though it had become pliable149, and settled down again rigidly150 to its work of cleaving the smooth surface of the sea. Its quivering stopped, and the faint noise of thunder ceased all at once, as though the ship had steamed across a narrow belt of vibrating water and of humming air.
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serenity
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everlasting
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propeller
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shimmer
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diverging
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ridges
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swirls
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foam
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hiss
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ripples
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agitated
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subsided
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speck
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hull
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everlastingly
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penetrated
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placid
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awnings
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exacting
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plank
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planks
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draught
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steadily
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bulwarks
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blurred
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vibration
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eyelids
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reposed
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lone
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corpse
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mound
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brass
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spout
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sleepers
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metallic
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brutally
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inaccessible
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watchful
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funnel
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catching
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