![]() The narrator tells us about his late wife, Ligeia. ![]() He keeps writing down his experiences, but as he does, the ship starts to be pulled into the whirlpool and he scribbles his last words as the ship is swallowed up. The narrator is terrified but his curiosity outweighs his terror. The crew seem to be excited, as if they heading for some huge discovery. ![]() ![]() Walls of ice rise up around the ship, which is headed due south. He observes the captain in his cabin, murmuring like the rest of the crew in an unintelligible way, and fiddling with what looks like ancient scientific instruments and charts. The ship reminds him of ships he has known, and has something antique about it, just like its crew, but he can’t figure it out. He explains how the crew, which is strangely aged and foreign, doesn’t seem to sense his presence at all. As the days pass, the narrator writes down his thoughts, hoping to send them out to sea in a bottle someday. He hides, stowing himself away in the hold. The ship crashes over them and the narrator is flung onto its deck. As they struggle, they encounter the biggest vessel they have ever seen, rising in front of them like a wave. The two spend days trying not to succumb to the whirlpool. All of the crew, apart from the narrator and his shipmate, are swept overboard. Suddenly one night the ship is pulled by a whirlpool and is wrecked. It gets very humid and the narrator senses a storm coming. ![]() The narrator, a self-professed man of reason, has been travelling for a long time, and recently started a voyage on a cargo ship to the Archipelago Islands. ![]()
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