Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... PAGE The Devil in the Belfrey... Frontispiece "Beating the devil's tattoo up in the belfry of the steeple of Vondervotteimittiss" A. Gordon Pym 4 "At length I summoned up the resolution of despair and, rushing to the mainsail, let it go by the run." (See Vol. u., p. 270.) A. Gordon Pym 40 "On his back there sat a huge sea-gull busily gorging itself with the horrible flesh." A. Gordon Pym 188 "But there arose in our pathway a shrouded human figure, very far larger in its proportions than any dweller among men." Ligeia 19a "Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will." Ligeia 216 "There streamed forth into the rushing atmosphere of the chamber huge masses of long and dishevelled hair. It was blacker than the raven wings of midnight!" (Continued from Volume II.) CHAPTER VII ULY 1oth.--Spoke a brig from Rio, bound to Norfolk. Weather hazy, with a light baffling wind from the eastward. To-day Hartman Rogers died, having been attacked on the eighth with spasms after drinking a glass of grog. This man was of the cook's party, and one upon whom Peters placed his main reliance. He told Augustus that he believed the mate had poisoned him, and that he expected, if he did not be on the lookout, his own turn would come shortly. There were now only himself, Jones, and the cook belonging to his own gang; on the other side there were five. He had spoken to Jones about taking the command from the mate; but the project having been coolly received, he had been deterred from pressing the matter any further or from saying anything to the cook. It was well, as it happened, that he was so prudent, for in the afternoon the cook expressed his determination of vOL. III.--I. j siding with the mate...