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In this excerpt from the novel The Country of Pointed Firs,
the unnamed narrator-a female writer-receives a visit
from a retired sea captain.
adapted from Captain Littlepage
by Sarah Orne Jewett
"I am an old man, as you can see," said Captain
Littlepage, "and I have been a shipmaster the greater part of
my life. You may not think it, but I am above eighty years of
age."
"You must have left the sea many years ago," I said.
"I should have been serviceable at least five or six years
more," he answered.
Now we were approaching dangerous ground, but I
asked to hear more with all the deference I really felt.
"I had a valuable cargo of general merchandise from the
London docks to Fort Churchill, a station of the old company
on Hudson's Bay," said the captain earnestly. "we were
delayed in lading, and baffled by head winds and a heavy
tumbling sea all the way north-about and across. Then the
fog kept us off the coast and when I made port at last, it
was too late to delay in those northern waters with such a
vessel and such a crew as I had. They cared for nothing, and
idled me into a fit of sickness; but my first mate was a good,
excellent man, so we made what speed we could to get
clear of Hudson's Bay. I meant it should be my last voyage in
her, and so it proved. She had been an excellent yessel in