After the others have dropped off to sleep, the correspondent sees "a long, loud swishing astern of the boat, and a gleaming trail of phosphorescence, like blue flame, was furrowed on the black waters. It might have been made by a monstrous knife." What had the correspondent seen?He saw a fin of a shark in the oceanHe saw the aftermath of one of the men falling overboardhe experienced a hallucination that has no meaning he saw the tail of a mermaid playing around the boat

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