on one shore and then on ai the phantom other till your ship s tore in two i ve come through the bait stem first in the heart o the south east with a sou sou west wind blowing of the flood and our said he wouldn t do it again not for all s you ve heard o s sir yes and was stationed in the � i said no he was not at but much more east o them passages and that s strait at the east end o it s all on the way south to when you re running through that eastern sometimes you go through if you re full and sometimes through strait so as to stand south at once and fetch round keeping well clear o the bank if you aren t full why it stands to reason you go round by the passage keeping careful to the north side you understand that i was not and judged it safer to keep to the north side � of silence and on strait in the between island and the they put in charge of a screw pile light called the light it s less than a mile across the head of strait then it opens out to ten or twelve mile for strait and then it again to the of traffic a three mile with a by it that s old by strait and if you keep his light and the light in a line you won t take much harm not on the darkest night that s what told me and i can well believe him knowing these seas myself but you must ever be of the currents and there they put since he was the only man that that dutch government which owns could find that would go to and tend a fixed light mostly they uses dutch and englishmen being said to drink when alone i never could rightly find out what made accept of that position but accept he did and used to sit for to watch the come out of the forests to hunt for and such like round about the at low tide the water was always warm in those parts as i know well and uncommon and it ran with the tides as thick and smooth as in a there was another man along with in the light but he wasn t rightly a man he was a no nor yet a he wasn t but his skin was in little and cracks all over from living so much in the salt water as was his usual custom his hands was all foot he was called i remember saying now an orange lord on account of his habits you ve heard of an orange lord sir the phantom i suggested that s the name said his knee an of course and his name was what they call a sea told me that that man long hair and all would go swimming up and down the straits just for something to do running down on one tide and back again with the other swimming side stroke and the tides going strong he d be about the beach along with the at low tide for he was most part a beast or he d sit in a little boat praying to old of an evening when the was red at the south end of the strait told me that he wasn t a man like you and me might have been to now i can never rightly come at what it was that began to ail after he had been there a year or something less he was saving of all his pay and tending to his light and now and again he d have a fight with and tip off the light into the sea th n he told me his head began to feel looking at the tide so long he said there long streaks of white running inside it like wall paper that hadn t been properly up he said the streaks they would run with the north and south twice a day to them and he d lie down on the � it was a sc ft the of traffic pile light � with his eye to a crack and watch the water through the piles just so quiet as he said the only comfort he got was at slack water then the streaks in his head went round and round like a in a but that was heaven he said to the other kind of streaks � the straight ones that looked like arrows on a wind but much more regular and that was the trouble of it no more he couldn t ever keep his eyes off the tides that ran up and down so strong but as soon as ever he looked at the high hills standing all along strait for rest and comfort his eyes would be pulled down like to the water and when they once got there he couldn t pull them away again till the tide changed he told me all this himself speaking just as though he was talking of somebody else where did you meet him i asked in harbour a cleaning the of a boat but i d known him off and on through following the sea for many years yes he spoke about himself very curious and all as if he was in the next room laying there dead those streaks they upon his he said and he made up his mind every time that the dutch that to the lights in those parts come along that he d ask to be took off but as soon as she did come something went click it the phantom in his throat and he was so took up with watching her because they ran in the contrary direction to his streaks that he could never say a 