the companion ladder; and I knew that the two drunkards had at last been interrupted in their quarrel and
awakened to a sense of their disaster.
I lay down flat in the bottom of that wretched skiff, and devoutly recommended my spirit to its Maker. At
the end of the straits, I made sure we must fall into some bar of raging breakers, where all my troubles
would be ended speedily; and though I could, perhaps, bear to die, I could not bear to look upon my fate
as it approached.
So I must have lain for hours, continually beaten to and fro upon the billows, now and again wetted with
flying sprays, and never ceasing to expect death at the next plunge. Gradually weariness grew upon
me; a numbness, an occasional stupor, fell upon my mind even in the midst of my terrors; until sleep at
last supervened, and in my sea-tossed coracle I lay and dreamed of home and the old `Admiral Benbow.'
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