[The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe]@TWC D-Link bookThe Works of Edgar Allan Poe CHAPTER 10 2/9
The former danced about the deck like a madman, uttering the most extravagant rhodomontades, intermingled with howls and imprecations, while the latter burst into tears, and continued for many minutes weeping like a child. The vessel in sight was a large hermaphrodite brig, of a Dutch build, and painted black, with a tawdry gilt figure-head.
She had evidently seen a good deal of rough weather, and, we supposed, had suffered much in the gale which had proved so disastrous to ourselves; for her foretopmast was gone, and some of her starboard bulwarks.
When we first saw her, she was, as I have already said, about two miles off and to windward, bearing down upon us.
The breeze was very gentle, and what astonished us chiefly was, that she had no other sails set than her foremast and mainsail, with a flying jib--of course she came down but slowly, and our impatience amounted nearly to phrensy.
The awkward manner in which she steered, too, was remarked by all of us, even excited as we were.
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