called in the second dog-watch,
a summons under such circumstances not un usual in those hours,
the men people" crew were not wholly unprepared
for some announcement extraordinary , one
having connection too with the continued absence of the
two men from their wonted haunts.
There was a moderate
sea at the time; and the moon, newly
risen and near to being a f at its full,
silvered the white spar-deck whereon
the clear-cut shadow of a any moving man
wherever not blotted by the clear-cut
shadows of horizontally thrown of
fixtures and moving men. On either
side the quarter-deck the marine not at all tempestuous all hands were
called in the second dog-watch,
a summons under such circumstances not un usual in those hours,
the men people" crew were not wholly unprepared
for some announcement extraordinary , one
having connection too with the continued absence of the
two men from their wonted haunts.
There was a moderate
sea at the time; and the moon, newly
risen and near to being a f at its full,
silvered the white spar-deck whereon
the clear-cut shadow of a any moving man
wherever not blotted by the clear-cut
shadows of horizontally thrown of
fixtures and moving men. On either
side the quarter-deck the marine not at all tempestuous all hands were
Transcribed by: Christopher Ohge