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of the log.html">log.html">log-book which was left on board the deserted ship.html">ship.html">ship; how she
cargo, the crew clinging in the tops, and crawling down, when they
washed overboard and gone; and then notice after notice, 'On this day
kept up to the last, even when there was only that to tell, by the
last, when there was neither food nor water, the strong man's heart
in the log--'The Lord have mercy on us!'--and then a blank of several
Creator in the days of thy youth;'--and so the log and the ship were
And well I remember the last act of that tragedy; for a ship has
own; and as long as her timbers hold together, all is not over. You
her, and were her soul, may have fled into the far eternities; and so
north-west wind hurling dead branches and showers of crisp oak-leaves
came upon such a piece of chiaroscuro as would have baffled
sails and spars, filled with Preventive men, fishermen, Lloyd's
costume; while candles, stuck in bayonet-handles in the wall, poured
of timber, and rusty iron cable, that glowed red-hot in the light.html">light.html">light,
in long fans of light, sending fiery bars over the brown transparent
glorifying the wild flakes of foam, as they rushed across the light-
night and hid themselves among the woods from the fierce spirit of
fires was most brilliant, there too the black shadows of the cliff
upwards right and left, between the two great jaws of the glen, into
cloud, but a perpetual shifting and quivering as if the whole
by a deathbed-side, to watch the last struggle,--and 'the effects of
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