locked for ever in each other's arms.

Yes! I saw more things on that starry night, by that blood-red
glare, than I have told you in their order, and more things than
I shall tell you now. Blind would I gladly be for my few remaining
years, if that night's horrors could be washed from these eyes for
ever. I have said so much, however, that in common candor I must
say one thing more. I have spoken of selfish savages. God help me
and forgive me! For by this time I was one myself.

In the long-boat we cannot have been less than thirty; the exact
number no man will ever know. But we shoved off without mischance;
the chief mate had the tiller; the third mate the boat-hook; and
six or eight oars were at work, in a fashion, as we plunged among
the great smooth sickening mounds and valleys of fathomless ink.

Scarcely were we clear when the foremast dropped down on the
fastenings, dashing the jib-boom into the water with its load of
demented human beings. The mainmast followed by the board before
we had doubled our distance from the wreck. Both trailed to port,
where we could not see them; and now the mizzen stood alone in sad
and solitary grandeur, her flapping idle sails lighted up by the
spreading conflagration, so that they were stamped very sharply
upon the black add starry sky. But the whole scene from the
long-boat was one of startling brilliancy and horror. The fire now
filled the entire waist of the vessel, and the noise of it was as
the rumble and roar of a volcano. As for the light, I declare that
it put many a star clean out, and dimmed the radiance of all the
rest, as it flooded the sea for miles around, and a sea of molten
glass reflected it. My gorge rose at the long, low billows-sleek