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Panel 1 [Shot in focsle. Jackson is weeping in his bunk, his leg amputated at the thigh and his pants cinched over it. The rest of the crew sheepishly looks on. Lawrence's voice comes off camera]

LAWRENCE:
I’d place his chances of survival at 50 percent if he stays on the ship. At best.

Panel 2 [Lawrence and Barzillai speak outside the foclsle. Barzillai looking at him with some suspicion trying to figure him out as Lawrence wipes his hands with a bloodied rag]

BARZILLAI:
We’re making a provision stop in the Azores. We’ll discharge him there.

Panel 3 [Pulled back shot as the two men walk down the tween deck towards the officer's cabins.]

BARZILLAI:
A surgeon. Never would’ve thought.

LAWRENCE:
I studied at Dartmouth Medical School.

BARZILLAI:
And you said nothing?

Panel 4 [Lawrence answers simply, and Barzillai looks mildly annoyed by his response]

LAWRENCE:
I heard that agents didn’t hire doctors on these ships
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Page 137
Posted on January 17, 2024 by Silas
An educated doctor in the 1840s, no less!

6 thoughts on “Page 137”

  1. Oldarmourer

    Loved the Azores, wish I could have stayed there. Really quiet and pretty…until they ran the bulls through the streets 😉

    1. Silas

      I want to go someday! Tho, in better circumstances than this lad.

      1. Oldarmourer

        From what I’ve read and the odd youtube clip I looked at just for old times’ sake, it’s changed drastically there even from the 80’s when I was going, and like most places in the world today, not for the better 🙁

        In a sort of serendipitous coincidence, or maybe not, while stripping the xmas decorations down my wife found an old 3-D wooden wall diorama I picked up there and hadn’t seen in about 30 years, the interior view of a one room peasant cabin with a music box you turn on by shifting a little arm holding a pot on a chain over the hearth. It’s funny how this sort of ‘coincidence’ continually seems to happen but I’m used to it 🙂

        1. Silas

          What a charming sounding object

        2. Oldarmourer

          It used to be, it doesn’t work now, I think someone overwound it so maybe I’ll have a go at fixing it if I get around to it, my fingers don’t deal with tiny parts as well as they used to but that’s alright, I can’t see them anyway 😉 Should be able to relax the spring though.

  2. Nauta

    Well now, look at who’s a lot more qualified than we thought!!

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