Contraband
Contraband By Frank L. Packard First Published in (ss) The Popular Magazine, Jun 15 1910, and Sea Stories Magazine Jun 1922. This story also crosses over to the same period as A. Hyatt Verrill and my Sea Stories research through Syracuse University Archives! Please also note the language of the ship engineer—it sure mirror’s that of Scotty in Star Trek, though preceding him by about 80 years./drf Chapter I. Astern, far astern on the horizon line, there showed a tiny smudge of black—apart, an empty sea, smooth, with an oily swell. Cream-like ribbons of white from the bow wave of the Castle Prince curled and trailed along her sides with bubbling, hissing sounds—and lost their identity in the swirling wake. Forward across the lower deck, an awning drooped from its lashings, listless, motionless—mute tribute to the torrid, airless heat. Beneath it men moaned and tossed, turning flushed faces restlessly from side to side, their eyes staring with that strange, drunk-like...