Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


I saw Mr. Mellaire beginning his four hours' watch, pacing up and
down the port side of the poop; and I slipped away aft, past the man
at the wheel, whom I did not recognize, and took refuge in the lee of
the wheel-house.


Once again I studied the dim loom and tracery of intricate rigging
and lofty, sail-carrying spars, thought of the mad, imbecile crew,
and experienced premonitions of disaster. How could such a voyage be
possible, with such a crew, on the huge Elsinore, a cargo-carrier
that was only a steel shell half an inch thick burdened with five
thousand tons of coal? It was appalling to contemplate. The voyage
had gone wrong from the first. In the wretched unbalance that loss
of sleep brings to any good sleeper, I could decide only that the
voyage was doomed. Yet how doomed it was, in truth, neither I nor a
madman could have dreamed.

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