Chapter 9
The Galileo’s broad main deck provided ample space for the circuits Duncan began walking twice each day, just before noon and just before midnight. With less than two weeks left of their voyage, he worked hard both to be predictable and to identify a place amidships that could be concealed from the helmsman by some inconspicuous adjustment to the large hogsheads lashed to the deck.
GalileoTwo days after his conversation with the captain, while the army officers were at evening mess, a line was fixed to the corner stanchion on the port side and inconspicuously dragged behind the ship. The next morning Ensign Lewis awoke screaming, declaring that he had seen the ghost of an Indian hovering over him with a tomahawk in his hand and rats perched on his shoulder. Major Hastings mocke
