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Or heart disease complicated with something else that obscured his mind that afternoon before his death ? Well , no one knows , and I , for one , shall not sit , even in secret judgment , on the event . * * * * * At midday of the day we clawed off Tierra Del Fuego the _ Elsinore _ was rolling in a dead calm , and all afternoon she rolled , not a score of miles off the land . Captain West was buried at four o'clock , and at eight bells that evening Mr. Pike assumed command and made a few remarks to both watches . They were straight-from-the-shoulder remarks , or , as he called them , they were `` brass tacks . '' Among other things he told the sailors that they had another boss , and that they would toe the mark as they never had before . Up to this time they had been loafing in an hotel , but from this time on they were going to work .