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T h e O p e n B o a t
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T h e O p e n B o a t
NONE OF THEM KNEW THE COLOR OF THE SKY.
Their eyes glanced level, and remained upon the waves that swept
toward them. These waves were gray, except for the tops, which were
white, and all the men knew the colors of the sea. The line between
sky and water narrowed and widened, and fell and rose.
A man likes to take a bath in a bigger area than this boat could
provide. These waves were frightfully rapid and tall; and each boiling,
white top was a problem in the small boat.
The cook sat in the bottom, and looked with both eyes at the six
inches of boat which separated him from the ocean. He had bared his
fat arms as he worked to empty the water from the boat. Often he said,
“God! That was a bad one.” As he remarked it, he always looked toward
the east over the rough sea.
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The oiler, guiding with one of the two oars in the boat, sometimes
raised himself suddenly to keep away from the water that poured in. It
was a thin little oar, and it often seemed ready to break.
The correspondent, pulling at the other oar, watched the waves
and wondered why he was there.
The hurt captain, lying in the front, was feeling defeat and despair.
It was despair that comes, for a time at least, to even the bravest and most
enduring when the business fails, the army loses, the ship goes down.
The mind of the master of a vessel is rooted deep in her wood, whether
he commands for a day or many. And this captain had in his thoughts
the firm impression of a scene in the grays of dawn, with seven faces
turned down in the sea. And later the remains of the ship, washed by
waves, going low and lower and down. Thereafter there was something
strange in his voice. Although steady, it was deep with grief, and of a
quality beyond speech or tears.
“Keep her a little more south, Billie,” said he.
“A little more south, sir,” said the oiler in the back.
A seat in this boat was not unlike a seat upon a jumpy horse, and
a horse is not much smaller. The boat was much like an animal. As each
wave came, and she rose for it, she seemed like a horse leaping over a
high fence. The manner of her ride over these walls of water is a thing
of mystery. Each wave required a new leap, and a leap from the air. Then
jumping and slipping and racing and dropping down, she steadied for
the next threat.
A particular danger of the sea is the fact that after successfully get
ting through one wave, you discover that there is another behind it. The
next wave is just as nervously anxious and purposeful to overturn boats.
In a tenfoot boat one can get a good idea of the great force of the sea.
As each gray wall of water approached, it shut all else from the view of
the men in the boat. It was not difficult to imagine that this particular
wave was the final outburst of the ocean, the last effort of the deter
mined water.
The sun climbed steadily up the sky. The men k
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