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And
then
came
a
day
,
a
wonderful
day
,
which
I
spent
in
ecstasy
.
I
saw
a
sail
to
the
southwest
,
a
small
sail
like
that
of
a
little
schooner
;
and
forthwith
I
lit
a
great
pile
of
brushwood
,
and
stood
by
it
in
the
heat
of
it
,
and
the
heat
of
the
midday
sun
,
watching
.
All
day
I
watched
that
sail
,
eating
or
drinking
nothing
,
so
that
my
head
reeled
;
and
the
Beasts
came
and
glared
at
me
,
and
seemed
to
wonder
,
and
went
away
.
It
was
still
distant
when
night
came
and
swallowed
it
up
;
and
all
night
I
toiled
to
keep
my
blaze
bright
and
high
,
and
the
eyes
of
the
Beasts
shone
out
of
the
darkness
,
marvelling
.
In
the
dawn
the
sail
was
nearer
,
and
I
saw
it
was
the
dirty
lug-sail
of
a
small
boat
.
But
it
sailed
strangely
.
My
eyes
were
weary
with
watching
,
and
I
peered
and
could
not
believe
them
.
Two
men
were
in
the
boat
,
sitting
low
down
,
--
one
by
the
bows
,
the
other
at
the
rudder
.
The
head
was
not
kept
to
the
wind
;
it
yawed
and
fell
away
.
As
the
day
grew
brighter
,
I
began
waving
the
last
rag
of
my
jacket
to
them
;
but
they
did
not
notice
me
,
and
sat
still
,
facing
each
other
.
I
went
to
the
lowest
point
of
the
low
headland
,
and
gesticulated
and
shouted
.
There
was
no
response
,
and
the
boat
kept
on
her
aimless
course
,
making
slowly
,
very
slowly
,
for
the
bay
.
Suddenly
a
great
white
bird
flew
up
out
of
the
boat
,
and
neither
of
the
men
stirred
nor
noticed
it
;
it
circled
round
,
and
then
came
sweeping
overhead
with
its
strong
wings
outspread
.
Then
I
stopped
shouting
,
and
sat
down
on
the
headland
and
rested
my
chin
on
my
hands
and
stared
.
Slowly
,
slowly
,
the
boat
drove
past
towards
the
west
.
I
would
have
swum
out
to
it
,
but
something
--
a
cold
,
vague
fear
--
kept
me
back
.
In
the
afternoon
the
tide
stranded
the
boat
,
and
left
it
a
hundred
yards
or
so
to
the
westward
of
the
ruins
of
the
enclosure
.
The
men
in
it
were
dead
,
had
been
dead
so
long
that
they
fell
to
pieces
when
I
tilted
the
boat
on
its
side
and
dragged
them
out
.
One
had
a
shock
of
red
hair
,
like
the
captain
of
the
"
Ipecacuanha
,
"
and
a
dirty
white
cap
lay
in
the
bottom
of
the
boat
.
As
I
stood
beside
the
boat
,
three
of
the
Beasts
came
slinking
out
of
the
bushes
and
sniffing
towards
me
.
One
of
my
spasms
of
disgust
came
upon
me
I
thrust
the
little
boat
down
the
beach
and
clambered
on
board
her
.
Two
of
the
brutes
were
Wolf-beasts
,
and
came
forward
with
quivering
nostrils
and
glittering
eyes
;
the
third
was
the
horrible
nondescript
of
bear
and
bull
.
When
I
saw
them
approaching
those
wretched
remains
,
heard
them
snarling
at
one
another
and
caught
the
gleam
of
their
teeth
,
a
frantic
horror
succeeded
my
repulsion
.
I
turned
my
back
upon
them
,
struck
the
lug
and
began
paddling
out
to
sea
.
I
could
not
bring
myself
to
look
behind
me
.
I
lay
,
however
,
between
the
reef
and
the
island
that
night
,
and
the
next
morning
went
round
to
the
stream
and
filled
the
empty
keg
aboard
with
water
.
Then
,
with
such
patience
as
I
could
command
,
I
collected
a
quantity
of
fruit
,
and
waylaid
and
killed
two
rabbits
with
my
last
three
cartridges
.
While
I
was
doing
this
I
left
the
boat
moored
to
an
inward
projection
of
the
reef
,
for
fear
of
the
Beast
People
.
In
the
evening
I
started
,
and
drove
out
to
sea
before
a
gentle
wind
from
the
southwest
,
slowly
,
steadily
;
and
the
island
grew
smaller
and
smaller
,
and
the
lank
spire
of
smoke
dwindled
to
a
finer
and
finer
line
against
the
hot
sunset
.
The
ocean
rose
up
around
me
,
hiding
that
low
,
dark
patch
from
my
eyes
.
The
daylight
,
the
trailing
glory
of
the
sun
,
went
streaming
out
of
the
sky
,
was
drawn
aside
like
some
luminous
curtain
,
and
at
last
I
looked
into
the
blue
gulf
of
immensity
which
the
sunshine
hides
,
and
saw
the
floating
hosts
of
the
stars
.
The
sea
was
silent
,
the
sky
was
silent
.
I
was
alone
with
the
night
and
silence
.
So
I
drifted
for
three
days
,
eating
and
drinking
sparingly
,
and
meditating
upon
all
that
had
happened
to
me
,
--
not
desiring
very
greatly
then
to
see
men
again
.
One
unclean
rag
was
about
me
,
my
hair
a
black
tangle
:
no
doubt
my
discoverers
thought
me
a
madman
.
It
is
strange
,
but
I
felt
no
desire
to
return
to
mankind
.
I
was
only
glad
to
be
quit
of
the
foulness
of
the
Beast
People
.
And
on
the
third
day
I
was
picked
up
by
a
brig
from
Apia
to
San
Francisco
.
Neither
the
captain
nor
the
mate
would
believe
my
story
,
judging
that
solitude
and
danger
had
made
me
mad
;
and
fearing
their
opinion
might
be
that
of
others
,
I
refrained
from
telling
my
adventure
further
,
and
professed
to
recall
nothing
that
had
happened
to
me
between
the
loss
of
the
"
Lady
Vain
"
and
the
time
when
I
was
picked
up
again
,
--
the
space
of
a
year
.
