Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 609
lyworked our way along to the pilot-house andlooked in. The captain was inside, and when hesaw us he opened the door and came out. He was better. He put all this in a good deal of sea-lan-guage, but I tell it as I got the sense of it. Did you think she would go over, captain?asked Rectus. Oh no !… … THE SHIP WAS ON FIRE ! going to his own room, just back of the pilot-house,and he told us to come with him. He looked tired and wet, and he told us that thestorm had grown so bad that he did nt think itwould be right to keep on our course any longer.We were going to the north-west, and the stormwas…
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