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It was comparative , a period of less misery slipped in between a past of great miseries and a future of great miseries . For the _ Ghost _ , so far as the seamen were concerned , was a hell-ship of the worst description . They never had a moment 's rest or peace . Wolf Larsen treasured against them the attempt on his life and the drubbing he had received in the forecastle ; and morning , noon , and night , and all night as well , he devoted himself to making life unlivable for them . He knew well the psychology of the little thing , and it was the little things by which he kept the crew worked up to the verge of madness . I have seen Harrison called from his bunk to put properly away a misplaced paintbrush , and the two watches below haled from their tired sleep to accompany him and see him do it . A little thing , truly , but when multiplied by the thousand ingenious devices of such a mind , the mental state of the men in the forecastle may be slightly comprehended .