Chapter 53 CHAPTER XXIV.

CAUGHT IN A NET.

"I closed my lids and kept them close,

And the balls like pulses beat;

For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky,

Lay like a load on my weary eye,

And the dead were at my feet."

Captain Brand did not linger long over his frugal dinner, and when he had finished, as if he had not had enough exercise for the l