Castaways of the Flying Dutchman

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THE LEGEND OF THE FLYING DUTCHman. Who knows how it all began: Throughout the centuries many a

seaman could swear an oath that he had seen the phantom ship. Plowing an endless course over storm-tossed seas and

the deeps of mighty oceans. Many a night, mariners have sat together in lantern-lit fo'c'sle heads, speaking in hushed

tones of the vessel, and its master, Captain Vanderdecken. What awful curse sent the Flying Dutchman bound on an

eternal voyage, across the trackless watery wastes, from the Marquesas to the Arctic Circles, from the Coral Seas to

the Yucatan Straits, forever roaming alone. Whenever the ghostly craft is sighted, death is near. Bad fortune hovers

about those poor sailors, who see by chance what they wish their eyes had never witnessed.

The Flying Dutchman!

Salt-stiff rigging and gale-torn sails flapping eerily, a barnacle-crusted prow, down by the bow in soughing

troughs of blue-green waves. Crewed by silent wraiths of humanity to whom time and the elements have no end.

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