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For thirty-seven days I did not get an observation , nor speak a ship ! October ! It was October before we were warm . At noon we used to sail where we thought it was lightest . At night I used to keep two men up for a lookout , lash the wheel , and let her drift like a Dutchman . One way as good as another . Mary , when I saw the sun at last , enough to get any kind of observation , we were wellnigh three hundred miles northeast of Iceland !