In this chapter, we learn the story of a man named Cornelius, who was a captain of his own ship and had amassed a large fortune. He had a dream that he would be killed by a huge white shark. The nightmares consumed him, until he realized that if he didn't pay attention to his dream, he would become a shark bait. So he decided to leave the life of a mariner after one last voyage. The crew discovered that the ship was infested with sharks, and Cornelius decided to conceal a gun in the nether regions of the ship. But if he were to die on his own terms, then he would remain in control of himself and his own destiny. This would be the last voyage for all of the crew. The narrator concludes that all fates are fatal, and that there are worse ones than our own.