Gradually the massive downpour abated17, the sun peeped out, and the sodden18 decks and gear dried up. But there was no breath of wind. And as Captain Smith was a practical man, with all his patience, he decided19 to utilize20 this otherwise barren time in carrying out a scheme he had purposed leaving for some long spell of waiting in Indian harbours. We had on deck three huge, rough spars—long logs, in fact. These were loosed from their lashings and lifted on to the gallows21, whereon the boats usually rested. A big rip-saw was produced—the only time I ever saw one on board ship—and the strange spectacle was witnessed of a ship's deck being turned into a saw-pit, sailors into sawyers. Thick slabs22 were sawn off the spars, after which the carpenter, and a couple of men who could handle axe23 and adze, set to work to fashion them into topsail-yards. Meanwhile, the rest of the hands toiled24 like beavers25, unbending sails, sending down yards, and overhauling26 standing27 rigging, until the old ship looked as if she were in some snug28 dock-corner being dismantled29. All day long this work went on, no one knowing or caring whose watch on deck it should be, and at night the weary workers lay around promiscuously30, sleeping away the hours of darkness in calm certainty of being undisturbed. This curious interlude in an ocean voyage developed strange faculties31 in our men. The iron bands, which form part of the fittings of a ship's yards, were, owing to the skipper's desire to have heavier spars, found to be too small. No matter. An impromptu32 forge was rigged up on a barrel filled with sand, a most ingenious bellows33 was made by somebody, and, as if born and bred in a smithy, the bo'sun and two hands manipulated that ironwork in such workmanlike fashion that it answered its purpose as well as if turned out of a Blackwall foundry.
For many days this work went on, with apparently34 no more notice taken of its strangeness than as if it were the normal course of events. But gradually the deathly stillness of our surroundings, the utter absence of the faintest air of wind, or sign of any other vessel in a similar plight35, began to tell upon everybody's nerves. Men took to gathering36 in twos and threes in the evenings to recount their experiences of lengthened37 calms, and the yarns38 they had heard of bygone tragedies connected with ships that had strayed into windless seas. Even the busy working-hours could not prevent the men from gazing uneasily over the side where the familiar, smiling face of the sea was undergoing a mysterious change. There is about the deep sea, even in the hottest weather, a delicious atmosphere of cool cleanliness, a searching purity, such as the earth can never yield, giving one the fixed39 idea that to this vast, unpollutable limpidity40 the nations owe their health. In some dim fashion this thought is present with all sea-farers, however dense41 and unnoticing they may be. Therefore, when that familiar freshness was found to be giving place to a stale, stagnant42 greasiness43 to which a mawkish44, uninvigorating atmosphere clung, what wonder that uneasiness—all the more difficult to bear quietly because undefinable—became generally manifest. Adding to the sense of eerieness, was the fact that old Peter was failing fast. I have already mentioned how willingly his share of the common burden was borne by his shipmates, and how loyally they tended him, even though such service as he needed could not be spoken of without offence. But now his mind had completely gone. He lived in some misty45 past, about which he babbled46 unceasingly. Often, in the still evenings, all hands would gather round him, listening in perfect silence to his disjointed reminiscences of desperate deeds in the way of duty, of long-drawn47-out debaucheries in filthy48 rookeries of home ports, as well as the well-known hells at Hong Kong, Calcutta, or Callao. They were strange scenes, those dog-watch gatherings49, nothing distinctly visible but the red glow of the pipes—except when the sudden glare of a match, struck to light fresh tobacco, shed a momentary50 gleam over the group of haggard, bearded faces, each beclouded with an unwonted shadow. In the midst, a placid51 stream of sound, Peter's voice prattled52 on, its lurid53 language in the strangest contrast to the gentleness of his speech. Still the days dragged on and the faces grew longer. All the refitting was finished, and only the ordinary routine of ship-life was left to be carried on. Happily those duties are always, in the hands of capable officers, sufficiently54 onerous55 to prevent time ever hanging heavily. One of the strangest of all the strange notions current ashore56 about sea-life is that sailors have nothing to do but watch the ship go along, except during stormy weather. One would have thought that the never-ending, ever-beginning round of work in a house that is properly kept would have taught all landsmen and women that the great complicated machine called a ship would demand at least equal labours to keep it fit and in working order. But "watch and watch" was now restored, which, of course, threw a great deal of additional time upon the men's hands, since they could still sleep through the night, if they chose, without fear of being disturbed. So for hours, when unemployed57, men took to hanging over the rail, watching, with an unnatural58 curiosity, the myriads59 of strange creatures that, lured60 from their silent haunts in the gloomy middle-depths of the ocean by the long-enduring stillness above, came crawling about, blinking glassily with dead-looking eyes at the unfamiliar61 light. Truly it was an uncanny sight. Not only fish of bizarre shape abounded62, but vast numbers of great medusæ—semi-transparent simulacra of all the hideous63 things that ever haunted a maniac's dream—crawled greasily64 about us, befouling the once clear blue of the sea, and coating its sleek66 surface with stagnant slime. And, deeper down, mighty67 shadows passed sluggishly68 to and fro, filling the gazers with wordless terror as the days crept wearily away and those formless apparitions69 gradually chose higher levels. Overhead the sweet fathomless70 azure71 of the sky paled as if in sympathy with the silent sea. Cloudless, indeed, but overspread with a filmy veil of strange mist, that, while it robbed the sun of its glare, seemed to enclose us within a dome72 of heat, unventilated and stale. When night fell, instead of cool refreshment—such as comes, even in tropical calms, after sunset at all ordinary times—there arose a foul65 odour of decaying things that clung clammily to the palate like a miasma73. The densely74 populated ocean beneath palpitated with pale fire, the gleaming of putrescence. Instead of the usual brisk movement seen among the glowing denizens75 of the deep, everything crawled languidly, as if infected with some universal pestilence76. Moon and stars lost their strong silver glow, and were no longer reflected in the smoothness beneath as if shining in another heaven. And at moonrise, when the fantastic mist-wreaths writhed77 about the horizon, the broad red disc of the moon would be distorted into many uncouth78 shapes, or patterns of strange design were drawn across her paling surface.
At last, one night, when old Peter was holding his usual levee, he suddenly raised his voice, and authoritatively79 demanded that his auditors80 should bear him on to the forecastle head. They instantly obeyed, lifting him tenderly upon his mattress81, and laying him gently by the side of the capstan. Then all hands gathered round him in the darkness, only the glow of the pipes fitfully illuminating82 the rugged83 countenances84. Slowly the moon rose, but sent no silvery pathway across the sea, until suddenly, as if with a great effort, she broke through the hampering85 mist-wreaths that seemed to clog86 her upward way. A pure, pale beam shot right athwart our vessel, lighting87 up the little group of watchers on the forecastle, and lingering as if lovingly upon the withered88, weather-scarred face of our ancient shipmate. As it did so he smiled—a patient, happy smile—his lips unclosed, and, with a sigh of relief like a weary child, he died.
Breaking the steadfast89 silence came the mate's mellow90 cry, "Square the mainyard!" As the men rose to obey, a gentle breath, welcome as the first thrill of returning health, kissed the tanned faces. Slowly the great yards swung round, a pleasant murmuring as of a mountain rivulet92 arose from the bows, and the long calm was over. In quiet attendance upon the dead came the sailmaker, with a roll of worn canvas under his arm in which the poor, shrivelled remains93 were reverently94 wrapped and neatly95 sewn up. A big lump of coal was found and secured to the feet, and the long parcel was borne gently aft to the gangway. There in the moonlight we all gathered, while the skipper, with faltering, unaccustomed voice, read the stately words of the Burial Service, all hands standing like statues as they listened to what all admit to be one of the most solemn as well as majestic96 selections known in our splendid language. Suddenly there was a pause; the skipper raised his hand, and those who supported the plank97 on which the worn-out tabernacle of old Peter lay, gently raised its inner end. There was a subdued98 s-s-s-h as the white fardel slid slowly seaward, followed by a sullen99 plunge100. All rushed to the side, where an ascending101 column of green light marked the descent into those calm profundities102 of our dead. An almost inaudible sigh of relief escaped from every lip, as if a well-nigh intolerable burden had been removed. Undoubtedly104 that was the predominant feeling, intensified105 by the fact that a sweet breeze was now blowing steadily106. In the blue dome above, the moon and her attendant stars were shining with their full splendour, and from the now sparkling face of the surrounding sea the sickly mist was rolled quite away.
Thenceforward, although our progress was wretchedly slow, of course, we were little troubled by calms. But our tribulations107 were not yet all over. Barber, the painter A.B., was taken ill; so ill as to be quite useless, nor did he ever again that voyage recover sufficiently to resume his place as an active member of the crew. And other men were grievously tried by scurvy108, which, though in a mild form, was painful and weakening. How it was that they were no worse, I cannot think, for the food was bad enough truly for the development of that malignant109 disease in its worst form. But, somehow, we worried along in dogged fashion, every one showing rare patience under their unmerited sufferings.
And so, in laborious110 fashion, we crept southward and round the Cape103 without any bad weather worth mentioning, until well to the eastward111 of that justly dreaded112 point. Then one night we had a narrow escape from serious disaster. It was our (the second mate's) watch on deck from eight to midnight. We were jogging along before a light south-westerly breeze, at about four knots, the weather being singularly fine for those latitudes113. Down in the cabin the skipper, his wife and daughter, and the mate were playing cards, while the second mate, with a carelessness most unusual with him, was hanging over the open scuttle114, absorbed in watching the game. Rees, the old Frenchman with a Welsh name, was on the look-out, and I heard him muttering and grumbling115 because the officer of the watch was oblivious116 of the fact that an ominous-looking cloud was rising in the northeast, or almost right ahead. Presently from its black bosom117 faint gleams of lightning showed themselves, while the subdued murmur91 of the breeze we had became hushed in an unnatural quiet. With a quickness that seemed miraculous118, the threatening cloud ahead overspread the sky, and still the second mate did not realize what was coming. As all sail was set, the position began to look so threatening that all the watch took the alarm, and gathered in the waist, ready for the sudden emergency imminent119. Presently the wind dropped dead, its sudden failure arousing the supine officer, who, lifting his head, took in the situation at a glance. But before he could issue an order, there came a smart patter of rain, followed immediately by a roar as the north-east wind, like a savage120 beast, leapt upon us, taking us flat aback. Then there was a hubbub121. Up rushed the skipper and mate, shouting for all hands. Everything was let go at once; but the sails, jammed backward against the masts, refused to allow the yards to come down. The ship began to drive astern most dangerously, nor could she be got round by any means. Presently she dipped her stern right under, taking a sea in over the taffrail that filled the decks fore5 and aft. It was now a question of minutes with us. If she could not be got round she would certainly go down stern foremost, for again and again she drove her broad stern under the rising sea as the now furious gale122 hurled123 her backwards124. The feeble efforts of the crew seemed utterly125 unavailing against the mighty force of this sudden tempest. But, providentially, a huge sea caught her on one bow, flinging her head off far enough for the wind to grip the head sails. Round she spun126 upon her heel like a top, and in another minute the shreds127 of the rending128 sails were thundering above our heads as they flew to fragments. In an indescribable uproar129, wherein the howling of the gale, the reverberations of the thunder, and the crash of our yards were all mingled130, the ill-used vessel sped away before the wind as if fleeing for her life. An almost continual glare of lightning shed an unearthly light over all, by which the havoc131 that was being wrought132 was plainly to be seen. How that night's work was ever accomplished133 I have no idea. But when morning dawned we were fore-reaching under the three lower topsails and fore topmast staysail, the fluttering rags of what remained of our lighter134 sails being secured in some haphazard135 sort of fashion to the yards. We had escaped the doom136 of many a fine ship, whose crew have paid the penalty of carelessness with their lives. It was long, however, before we overtook the labour which those few hours involved us in. For many days we jogged along under easy sail, getting farther and farther to the northward137 every day, happily for us, and so putting a greater distance between us and bad weather.
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spoke
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scooping
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seaman
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misty
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gatherings
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placid
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