attempting to put a man ashore, sir.”
“Which man, Mister Eaton?”
Three hundred yards off the island’s sheer wall, H.M.S.
Watching from the decks in silence, some of the men were praying as a boat approached the cliff. Lit pale orange by the setting sun, the palisade was bisected by a blue-shadowed crevasse that streaked seven hundred feet up its face.
The
Atrios.
Bounty.
Bounty , and still the hunt continued.
Lieutenant Eaton steadied the captain’s telescope and twisted the brass drawtube to focus the image: nine men were positioning the rowboat under the crack in the cliff. Eaton noticed that the seaman reaching up toward the fissure wore a scarlet cap. “It looks like Frears, Captain,” he reported.
The 182-foot exploration vessel was approaching the center of 36 million square miles of empty ocean that stretched from the equator to Antarctica-a void that globes and maps usually took advantage of to stack the words “South Pacific Ocean.”
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SeaLife
Trident’s
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