402 "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane
The History of Literature
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Seaward, Said the Captain.
The men were silent. They turned their eyes from the shore to the comber and waited. The boat slid up the incline, leaped at the furious top, bounced over it and swung down the long back the wave. A piece of life belt had lain in the bottom of the boat; as the correspondent went overboard, he held this to his chest with his left hand. He reflected immediately that it was colder than he had expected to find it off the coast of florida. This fact was somehow so mixed and confused with his opinion of his own situation that it seemed almost a proper reason for tears.
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