He must have suffered agonies of hunger.
Captain Len Guy lifted up the hair, which had been preserved by the cold, raised the head, gazed upon the scaled eyelids, and finally said with a sort of sob,-- "Patterson! Patterson!" "Patterson ?" I exclaimed.
The name, common as it was, touched some chord in my memory.

When had I heard it uttered?
Had I read it anywhere?
At this moment, James West, on a hint from the boatswain, searched the pockets of the dead man, and took out of them a knife, some string, an empty tobacco box, and lastly a leather pocket-book furnished with a metallic pencil.
"Give me that," said the captain.

Some of the leaves were covered with writing, almost entirely effaced by the damp.

He found, however, some words on the last page which were still legible, and my emotion may be imagined when I heard him read aloud in a trembling voice: "The _Jane.

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