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Tale of the sea including a sinking ship, and long days adrift in an open boat with near escapes from cannibalism. The narrator is on his one trip at sea as steward, and the lady involved - the captain's wife - is the archetype of the heartless woman: marrying the captain for his money; refusing to feed her baby once adrift; eager to accept the self-sacrifice of the officer who loved her - she drinks his blood before the killing is halted. (There was even a suggestion she would have eaten her own dead baby). The cause of the ship sinking is even attributable to her as a jilted Frenchman determines to do it as revenge on her. Mixture of commonplace realism and romantic melodrama. (PB)
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