The Birth of Venus

The Birth of Venus
Marc Chagall Painting
Henri Matisse Painting
Van Gogh Painting
¡¡¡¡At this moment, as he opened his mouth to speak, puff after puff struck the schooner and pressed her side under. The wind shrieked a wild song through the rigging. Some of the hunters glanced anxiously aloft. The whole lee rail, where the dead man lay, was buried in the sea, and as the schooner lifted and righted, the water swept across the deck, wetting us above our shoe-tops. A shower of rain drove down upon us, each drop stinging like a hailstone.
oil painting
As it passed, Wolf Larsen began to speak, the bareheaded men swaying in unison to the heave and lunge of the deck. ¡¡¡¡'I only remember one part of the service,' he said, 'and that is, "And the body shall be cast into the sea." So cast it in.' ¡¡¡¡He ceased speaking. The men holding the hatch-cover seemed perplexed, puzzled no doubt by the briefness of the ceremony. He burst upon them in a fury. ¡¡¡¡'Lift up that end there! What the - 's the matter with you?' ¡¡¡¡They elevated the end of the hatch-cover with pitiful haste, and, like a dog flung overside, the dead man slid feet first into the sea. The coal at his feet dragged him down. He was gone.