title: Captain Gault: Being the Exceedingly Private Log of a Sea-Captain
author:  William Hope Hodgson 
description: William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 - April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. He died in World War I at the age of 40.
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  # The Rover
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Joseph Conrad
  
  
  
      
  
  
  `Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
  
  
  Ease after war, death after life, does greatly please.'
  
  
  Spenser
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
  
  
  
  To
  
  
  G. Jean Aubry
  
  
  in friendship
  
  
  this tale of the last days of a
  
  
  French brother of the Coast
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ###  CHAPTER I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  After entering at break of day the inner roadstead
  
  
  of the Port of Toulon, exchanging several loud hails
  
  
  with one of the guardboats of the Fleet, which directed
  
  
  him where he was to take up his berth, Master-Gunner
  
  
  Peyrol let go the anchor of the sea-worn and
  
  
  battered ship in his charge, between the arsenal and
  
  
  the town, in full view of the principal quay. The
  
  
  course of his life, which in the opinion of any ordinary
  
  
  person might have been regarded as full of marvellous
  
  
  incidents (only he himself had never marvelled at
  
  
  them), had rendered him undemonstrative to 