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he stayed on guard. Slept no more—kept his hatchet hid
and close at hand.

Notes on Henry Ferguson's Log

From day after the ship burnt till the I2th he put
simply the (to him) eloquent word "doldrums."

The storms during the first fortnight he called the
awfulest wind squalls, the most terrific thunder and blind-
ing lightning he ever saw, and black as ink in absence
of lightning—caused to steer in all directions—Rained
5 times as hard as in the States.

Saw waterspout on lyth. Thinks it might be a pleasant
sight from a ship—Mentions the star mistaken for ship's
light.

From the Log

"Distressed by swordfish cavorting around the boat for
some time. Immense one—Passed some seaweed and
something that looked like trunk of old tree, but no birds
—beginning to be afraid Islands not there. Today it was
said to the Capt., and in the hearing of all, that some of
the men would not shrink, when a man was dead, from
using the flesh, though they would not kill. Horrible! God
give us all full use of our reason and spare us from such
things! . . ."