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It is not s that befell us at this ti and therefore tedious to the reader Suffice it then that the fair weather foretold by Godby had set in and day by day we stood on with a favouring wind Nevertheless, despite cal the creaxed apace by reason of the great black ship that dogged us, so her to be a bloody pirate and others a phanto us to destruction

As to ht for, 'prisoned in the stifling hold where no ray of kindly sun ht ever penetrate, and void of all human fellowship, I became a prey to wild, unholy fancies and a hts seeloom about eful i, uneasy sleepings, of hateful dreas, of sullen humours and a horror of all companionship, insomuch that when came Godby or Adam to supply one; thereafter, tossing feverishly uponto e that every hour brought me the nearer its fulfilment

And noas that I beca that I was not alone, that beyond , that lurked watchful-eyed in the gloo on soundless feet whithersoever I went This unease so grew upon me that when not lost in fevered sleep I would lie, with breath in check, listening to such sounds as reachedof the vessel's labour, until the squeak and scutter of so beyond the door, would bringpanic

To combat the which sick fancies it beca-place at dead of night and to prowl soft-footed about the ship where none stirred save o where I would) it seemed I was haunted still, that behind ht after night I roairdle, ht vainly every dark corner or patch of shadow