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r of wind and wave.
How did she do it? In the word "missing" there is a horrible depth
of doubt and speculation. Did she go quickly from under the men's
feet, or did she resist to the end, letting the sea batter her to
pieces, start her butts, wrench her frame, load her with an
increasing weight of salt water, and, dismasted, unmanageable,
rolling heavily, her boats gone, her decks swept, had she wearied
her men half to death with the unceasing labour at the pumps before
she sank with them like a stone?
However, such a case must be rare. I imagine a raft of some sort
could always be contrived; and, even if it saved no one, it would
float on and be picked up, perhaps conveying some hint of the
vanished name. Then that ship would not be, properly speaking,
missing. She would be "lost with all hands," and in that
distinction there is a subtle difference - less horror and a less
appalling darkness.
XVII.
The unholy fascination of dread dwells in the thought of the last
moments of a ship reported as "missing" in the columns of the
SHIPPING GAZETTE. Nothing of her ever comes to light - no grating,
no lifebuoy, no piece of boat or branded oaryilai：
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