Reason had left me.

When it returned I was far out at sea in our boat wholly estranged from civilization.

A day later I was picked up by the schooner in which I came to Port Moresby.
"I have formed a plan; you must hear it, Goodwin--" He fell upon his berth.

I bent over him.

Exhaustion and the relief of telling his story had been too much for him.