1 But the dead man was unconcerned.
2 If it were not for this, life would be dead.
3 The captain broke loose upon the dead man like a thunderclap.
4 A living dog is better than a dead lion, say I with the Preacher.
5 The mate was the first, but mark me words, there'll be more dead men before the trip is done with.
6 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
7 They elevated the end of the hatch-cover with pitiful haste, and, like a dog flung overside, the dead man slid feet first into the sea.
8 To himself only was he of value, and to show how fictitious even this value was, being dead he is unconscious that he has lost himself.
9 "And still no more dead men," I twitted Louis, when Smoke and Henderson, side by side, in friendly conversation, took their first exercise on deck.
10 For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
11 The dead man was an episode that was past, an incident that was dropped, in a canvas covering with a sack of coal, while the ship sped along and her work went on.
12 The lee rail, where the dead man lay, was buried in the sea, and as the schooner lifted and righted the water swept across the deck wetting us above our shoe-tops.
13 Leach and Johnson took no part in the discussion, and it was plain to see that their mates looked upon them as men for whom the worst was inevitable, who were beyond hope and already dead.
14 I know, with the possible exception of the incident of the dead mate, that I have not seen him really angry; nor do I wish ever to see him in a genuine rage, when all the force of him is called into play.
15 I was amused, a couple of evenings back, by seeing Wolf Larsen reading the Bible, a copy of which, after the futile search for one at the beginning of the voyage, had been found in the dead mate's sea-chest.
16 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all; yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
17 I had time to notice that the pockets of the dead man had been emptied on the deck, and that his body and his grin had been wrapped from view in canvas, the folds of which the sailor, Johansen, was sewing together with coarse white twine, shoving the needle through with a leather contrivance fitted on the palm of his hand.
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