By James Clavell
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He felt the cry at first more than he heard it. Then, mixed with the gale, he heard the wailing scream again. He was out of the cabin and up the companionway onto the quarterdeck, his heart pounding, his throat parched. It was dark night now and pouring, and he was momentarily exulted for he knew that the canvas raintraps, made so many weeks ago, would soon be full to overflowing. He opened his mouth to the near horizontal rain and tasted its sweetness, then turned his back on the squall. He saw that Hendrik was paralyzed with terror.
Fifth hour. Dusk. 133d day from Santa Maria Island, Chile, on the 32 degree North line of latitude. Sea still high and wind strong and the ship rigged as before. The color of the sea dull gray-green and bottomless. We are still running before the wind along a course of 270 degrees, veering to North North West, making way briskly, about two leagues, each of three miles this hour. Large reefs shaped like a triangle were sighted at half the hour bearing North East by North half a league distant. “Three men died in the night of the scurvy—Joris sailmaker, Reiss gunner, 2d mate de Haan.
Then he pointed at her. ” She stared at him uncomprehendingly. “Black-thorne,” he repeated carefully, pointing at himself, and again pointed at her. ” She frowned, then with a flood of understanding pointed at herself and said, “Onna! ” he repeated, very proud of himself as she was with herself. ” She nodded happily. ” The garden was unlike anything he had ever seen: a little waterfall and stream and small bridge and manicured pebbled paths and rocks and flowers and shrubs. It’s so clean, he thought.