midday
There was an oppression on his chest , a throbbing in his head , his mouth was so dry that it was difficult for him to move his tongue . He dozed , and murmured in his sleep , and , worn out with nightmares , his cough , and the stifling heat , towards morning he fell into a sound sleep . He dreamed that they were just taking the bread out of the oven in the barracks and he climbed into the stove and had a steam bath in it , lashing himself with a bunch of birch twigs . He slept for two days , and at midday on the third two sailors came down and carried him out . He was sewn up in sailcloth and to make him heavier they put with him two iron weights . Sewn up in the sailcloth he looked like a carrot or a radish : broad at the head and narrow at the feet ... . Before sunset they brought him up to the deck and put him on a plank ; one end of the plank lay on the side of the ship , the other on a box , placed on a stool .