Excerpt from Marooned, Vol. 2 of 3

Two mornings after this, on going on deck shortly before the breakfast - hour, I found the weather changed. The high sun, the blue skies which had shone over us now for many days together, were gone. The atmosphere was gloomy, with a pale thickness that brought the sea-line to within cannon-shot. Under the lead coloured gloom over the mastheads one could dimly catch sight here and there of a black curl of scud - like cloud blowing leisurely athwart our track, otherwise there was no break, no shadowed curve or line to tell of a denser or darker vapour yet above the warm and sallow.

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