Sometimes
he would stand on the weather-side
of the quarter-deck^ long gazing gazeing absently
off at the blank sea. At the
presentation to him then of some
minor matter interrupting the
current of his revery, he would

Sometimes
he would stand on the weather-side
of the quarter-deck^ long gazing gazeing absently
off at the blank sea. At the
presentation to him then of some
minor matter interrupting the
current of his revery, he would

Transcribed by: John Bryant