Up against it in Nigeria . avy great-coat, though it may havehampered my progress, undoubtedly kept in agood deal of body-warmth, and so modified themiseries of exposure. In less than five minutesfrom leaving the side of the ship I instinctivelylooked back, and saw the poor old Falaba poiseherself on end, hover, and then dive stern-fore-most to her grave. It wTas a pathetic andalmost human spectacle. One could not helpfeeling more than an impersonal pity for her,murdered as it were in cold blood, innocent,unarmed, and without a chance of defendingherself. The soul-piercing wails of those who b
Up against it in Nigeria . avy great-coat, though it may havehampered my progress, undoubtedly kept in agood deal of body-warmth, and so modified themiseries of exposure. In less than five minutesfrom leaving the side of the ship I instinctivelylooked back, and saw the poor old Falaba poiseherself on end, hover, and then dive stern-fore-most to her grave. It wTas a pathetic andalmost human spectacle. One could not helpfeeling more than an impersonal pity for her,murdered as it were in cold blood, innocent,unarmed, and without a chance of defendingherself. The soul-piercing wails of those who but a fewminutes before were cracking jokes and drinkingbeer careless of the future, and were now makingtheir last distraught appeals to their Maker;the gurgles of the drowning; and the grey-lookingcorpses flopping and bobbing aimlessly past me,as inane and lifeless as the mammie-chairs,furniture, and casks with which they were inter-mingled, all added to the physical nausea causedby the roughness of the water. Foaming sea-.
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