Abaft The Funnel Chapter 3 - A Menagerie Aboard

In which a keen-eyed man from Manila recounts the capture of a gang of bale thieves, whose careless smoking betrays them amid the shadows of the godown, leading to their prompt capture by the diligent Guarda Civile. Later, the calm and humidness of a ship’s fo’c’sle at two in the morning is observed, with silent engines and restless cats amid the restless pitching of the deck under a ghostly awning.