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1 I wish he would turn with the current.
2 That means he is tired and going with the current.
3 The current will have set us far to the eastward, he thought.
4 "Tomorrow is going to be a good day with this current," he said.
5 Before it was really light he had his baits out and was drifting with the current.
6 He knew quite well the pattern of what could happen when he reached the inner part of the current.
7 He could feel he was inside the current now and he could see the lights of the beach colonies along the shore.
8 Others let them drift with the current and sometimes they were at sixty fathoms when the fishermen thought they were at a hundred.
9 They sleep and the moon and the sun sleep and even the ocean sleeps sometimes on certain days when there is no current and a flat calm.
10 They were moving more slowly now and the glow of Havana was not so strong, so that he knew the current must be carrying them to the eastward.
11 He was letting the current do a third of the work and as it started to be light he saw he was already further out than he had hoped to be at this hour.
12 But he crowded the current a little so that he was still fishing correctly though faster than he would have fished if he was not trying to use the bird.
13 The sun rose thinly from the sea and the old man could see the other boats, low on the water and well in toward the shore, spread out across the current.
14 But they did not show it and they spoke politely about the current and the depths they had drifted their lines at and the steady good weather and of what they had seen.
15 He was rowing steadily and it was no effort for him since he kept well within his speed and the surface of the ocean was flat except for the occasional swirls of the current.
16 He saw the phosphorescence of the Gulf weed in the water as he rowed over the part of the ocean that the fishermen called the great well because there was a sudden deep of seven hundred fathoms where all sorts of fish congregated because of the swirl the current made against the steep walls of the floor of the ocean.