Story Of A Shipwrecked Sailor (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
But a hundred miles from shore it’s different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they’re very cocky. I lay so still that the playful little sea gull perching on my thigh probably thought I was dead. I watched it. It pecked at my pants but didn’t hurt me. I continued to extend my hand. Suddenly, at the precise moment the sea gull realized it was in danger and tried to take flight, I grabbed it by the wing, leaped to the middle of the raft, and prepared to devour it. When I first hoped it would perch on my thigh, I was sure that if I captured it I would eat it alive, without stopping to pluck its feathers. I was starving, and even the thought of the bird’s blood made me thirsty. But once I had it in my hands and felt the pulsing of its warm body and looked into its shiny, round dark-gray eyes, I hesitated. Once, I had stood on deck with a rifle, trying to shoot one of the sea gulls following the ship, and the destroyer’s gunnery officer, an experienced sailor, said, “Don’t be a scoundrel.
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