MS. Found in a Bottle
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"MS. Found in a Bottle" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the Baltimore Saturday Visitor in 1833.
Summary
The unnamed narrator, estranged from his family and country, sets sail as a passenger aboard a cargo ship from Batavia. Some days into the voyage, the ship is first becalmed then hit by a giant wave that washes everyone overboard except the narrator and an old Swede. Driven southward by a typhoon, they eventually collide with another ship, a gigantic black galleon. Only the narrator manages to scramble aboard. He finds it to be manned by extremely elderly crewmen who are unable to see him; he steals writing materials from the captain's cabin to keep a journal which he resolves to cast into the sea. This ship too continues to be driven southward, and he notices the crew appear to show signs of hope at the prospect of destruction as it reaches the Antarctic. Ultimately the ship enters a clearing in the ice where it is caught in a vast whirlpool and begins to sink.External links
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