But the queerest part of it all," the captain wrote in his log, "was the water itself.

Why had the captain written to me personally that threatening letter?

"Our captain was writing bis family the night he succumbed," the sailor continues.

It looked bad if a captain wrote that he had left command of his ship with, say, the third lieutenant.

The captain writes the names down in his notebook.

The captain had written a book on Soviet maritime history.

"He presents a very neat appearance and meets people well," that captain wrote.

The captain wrote back and said his team had no problem with us having an African-American.

The captain wrote a letter to your father complaining about the teaching and counseling methods used here.

They told him nothing except that there was something that the captain was not writing about.