The days pass uneventfully, until one night, some days after the voyage began, Jim finds himself on watch on the bridge of the ship, marveling at the beauty of the ocean, content with life and dreaming of the adventures and valorous deeds he will someday undertake. The captain comes up from below deck and a drunken engineer begins to verbally abuse the captain. Suddenly, the ship runs across something flotsam, a waterlogged wreck, something in the night, pitching the hapless engineer and the others from their feet.
The languid, poetic prose of this chapter speaks.....
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