Excerpt from The Death Ship, a Strange Story, Vol. 2 of 3: An Account of a Cruise in the Flying Dutchman, Collected From the Papers of the Late Mr. Geoffrey Fenton, of Poplar, Master Mariner I left him on deck three-quarters of an hour since, I answered. We were talking when he suddenly broke off, and I should have supposed him in a fit but for his erect posture and the fiery life in his eyes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.