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'The captain kept on moving here and there on the bridge; he seemed calm enough, only he stumbled several times; and once as I stood speaking to him he walked right into me as though he had been stone-blind.

He made no definite answer to what I had to tell.

He mumbled to himself; all I heard of it were a few words that sounded like "confounded steam!" and "infernal steam!"-- something about steam.

I thought.

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