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I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64

Date of account: Late nineteenth-century compilation
Source: The Ghost World
Reference: The Ghost World · selected passage 192
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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One of the chief features of many of these phantom-ship stories is the idea of retribution for evil deeds, as in the following, told by Irving in the 'Chronicles of Wolfert's Roost.' A certain Ramnout van Dam had 'danced and drank until midnight--Saturday--when he entered his boat to return home. He was warned that he was on the verge of Sunday morning, but he pulled off, swearing that he would not land until he reached Spiting Devil, if it took him a month of Sundays. He was never seen afterwards, but may be heard plying his oars, being the Flying Dutchman of the Tappan Sea, doomed to ply between Kakiot and Spiting Devil until the day of judgment.' Moore in his account of the phantom ship seen in the description of Deadman's Island, where wrecks were once common, writes:

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