Read this excerpt from "a cub pilot" from mark
twain's memoir, life on the mississippi.
which line from the excerpt best supports the
idea that twain is panicked?
"then came the leadsman's
sepulchral cry:
i began to climb the wheel like a squirrel,
but i would hardly get the boat started to
port before i would see new dangers on
that side, and away i would spin to the
other, only to find perils accumulating to
starboard and be crazy to get to port
again. then came the leadsman's
sepulchral cry:
"deep four in a bottomless
crossing! "
" would hardly get the boat
started to port before i would see
new dangers on that "
"d-e-e-p four! "
"d-e-e-p four! "
deep four in a bottomless crossing! the
terror of it took my breath away.