lukearnold:

That’s the last one. According to the men who just landed, that is the last longboat. I heard the same. I’m told they saw an injured man pulled aboard from out of the water, almost drowned. I heard the same.

Here I must be careful. I have well over two hundred men unaccounted for. Those who remain, it would be very hard to explain to them why, with all I have to tend to, I choose to stand here… hanging onto the fate of just one of them.