MS. Found in a Bottle
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"MS. Found in a Bottle" is an 1833 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances. As he nears his
Baltimore Saturday Visiter, October 19, 1833, Prize tale
Illustration by "Wogel" for an early edition
The Gift, Carey and Hart, Philadelphia, 1836
December 1835 issue of Southern Literary Messenger, featuring "MS. Found in a Bottle" (p. 33) and "Politian" (p. 13) by Edgar Allan Poe
Simoom
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Simoom or Saimum is a strong, hot, dry, dust-laden wind. The word is generally used to describe a local wind that blows in the Sahara, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, and the deserts of Arabian Peninsula. Its te
MS. Found in a Bottle
…a passenger aboard a cargo ship from Batavia (now known as Jakarta, Indonesia). Some days into the voyage, the ship is first becalmed, then hit by a simoom (a combination of a sand storm and hurricane) that capsizes the ship and sends everyone except the narrator and an old Swede overboard. Driven southward…
Sandstorm approaching the sphinx at Gîza at sunset, Egypt. C Wellcome V0049386