One of the passengers was a college professor. ![]() “Why, last week I saw the second mate kick the ship’s dog twice!” It’s not only humans who are mistreated on this ship,” interjected an animal-lover among the passengers, her voice quivering with indignation. I have a right to suck cocks without being called names for it!” The bosun spoke up: “Yesterday the first mate called me a ‘fruit’ just because I suck cocks. At the very least, the captain should let me run a crap game so that I can make some money.” I would just be paddling a canoe on a nice, placid lake. “If the palefaces hadn’t robbed me of my ancestral lands, I wouldn’t even be on this ship, here among the icebergs and arctic winds. “I have more reason to complain than anybody,” said an American Indian sailor. And the worst of it is that the mates always give me orders in English instead of Spanish.” We need plenty of food to keep us warm in this climate, and I’m not getting my share the Anglos get more. It isn’t fair!”Ī Mexican sailor chimed in: “¡Chingado! I’m only getting half the wages of the Anglo seamen. Ladies on this ship don’t get as many blankets as the men. “You think you have it bad!” said a lady passenger. The deck is slick with ice when I’m on lookout the wind cuts through me jacket like a knife every time I reef the foresail I blamed-near freeze me fingers and all I get for it is a miserable five shillings a month!” ![]() “Shiver me timbers,” said an able seaman, “if this ain’t the worst voyage I’ve ever been on. They began quarreling among themselves and complaining of the conditions under which they lived. They turned the ship north and sailed until they met with icebergs and dangerous floes, and they kept sailing north into more and more perilous waters, solely in order to give themselves opportunities to perform ever-more-brilliant feats of seamanship.Īs the ship reached higher and higher latitudes, the passengers and crew became increasingly uncomfortable. Once upon a time, the captain and the mates of a ship grew so vain of their seamanship, so full of hubris and so impressed with themselves, that they went mad.
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