“stephen crane’s own story.” what type of external conflict does it describe?
the cuban leader turned to me and said: "go in the fireroom. they are going to bail with buckets."
the engine room, by the way, represented a scene at this time taken from the middle kitchen of hades. in the first place, it was insufferably warm, and the lights burned faintly in a way to cause mystic and grewsome shadows. there was a quantity of soapish sea water swirling and sweeping and swirling among machinery that roared and banged and clattered and steamed, and, in the second place, it was a devil of a ways down below.
here i first came to know a certain young oiler named billy higgins. he was sloshing around this inferno filling buckets with water and passing them to a chain of men that extended up the ship's side. afterward we got orders to change our point of attack on water and to operate through a little door on the windward side of the ship that led into the engine room.