This time there was no mistake! A human voice responded to ours! Was it the voice of another unfortunate creature, abandoned in the middle of the ocean, some other victim of the shock sustained by the vessel? Or rather was it a boat from the frigate, that was hailing us in the darkness? ?
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It was not a mere phosphoric phenomenon. And, indeed, unless this shoal had a machine in its stomach, how could it change its position with such astonishing rapidity? ! More than one took up his quarters voluntarily in the cross-trees, who would have cursed such a berth under any other circumstances.
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