The Unknown Shore
The Unknown Shore
“Buckets of blood. There had been four buckets full, to be exact, carefully filled and set aside until the next should be brimming and ready to join them: Mr Eliot made it a fixed rule to bleed all the men in his charge the moment they passed beneath the tropic of Cancer, and the operation was now taking place on the foc’s’le. There had been the usual number of faintings, and a carpenter’s mate called Mitchel, perhaps the most savage and vicious man aboard, had chosen to pass away into, upon and... among the buckets that Mr Eliot and Tobias had preserved, for philosophical purposes: this accounted for the shocking appearance of the deck and for the look of vexation upon the surgeons’ faces. Some of the Wager’s people positively liked being bled, because they felt better after it; some did not mind it; but some, though reasonably courageous, manly and resolute, turned greenish-yellow at the sight of the instruments, and, without being touched, collapsed like so many maidens. And there were some who were terrified by the whole proceeding: Moses Lewis, Nicholas Griselham and George Bateman were discovered trying to hide themselves in a perfectly inadequate triangle of space between the cutter and the booms.MoreLess
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