Doctor Concanen is still strangely silent, however, and the captain's cheerfulness seems quite to have left him.

Oh, that this gloomy voyage were over! "Oct.

3rd .-- Weather clearer.

Light breeze from S.S.W.
"Oct.

5th .-- Let me roughly put down in few words what has happened, not that I see at present any chance of leaving this accursed ship alive, but in the hope that Providence may thus be aided--as far as human aid may go--in bringing these villains to justice, if this Journal should by any means survive me.
"Last night, shortly before ten, I went at Doctor Concanen's invitation to chat in his cabin.