<P> The report caused a sensation and spurred the author to write a narrative version of the events . The short story first appeared in the June 1897 issue of Scribner's Magazine . A second and lesser story, "Flanagan and His Short Filibustering Adventure", based upon the same shipwreck but told from the point of view of the captain, was published in McClure's Magazine in October 1897 . "The Open Boat" was published in the United States by Doubleday & McClure in April 1898 as part of the book The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure, which included additional works by Crane such as "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", "Death and the Child", and "The Wise Men". The English volume, published simultaneously with the American one, was titled The Open Boat and Other Stories and published by William Heinemann . Both editions included the subtitle "A Tale Intended to Be after the Fact . Being the Experience of Four Men from the Sunk Steamer' Commodore' ", and were dedicated "To the late William Higgins and to Captain Edward Murphy and Steward C.B. Montgomery of the Sunk Steamer Commodore". </P> <P> None of them knew the color of the sky . Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them . These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea . The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks . </P> <P> "The Open Boat" is divided into seven sections, each told mainly from the point of view of the correspondent, based upon Crane himself . The first part introduces the four characters--the correspondent, a condescending observer detached from the rest of the group; the captain, who is injured and morose at having lost his ship, yet capable of leadership; the cook, fat and comical, but optimistic that they will be rescued; and the oiler, Billie, who is physically the strongest, and the only one in the story referred to by name . The four are survivors of a shipwreck, which occurred before the beginning of the story, and are drifting at sea in a small dinghy . </P> <P> In the following four sections, the moods of the men fluctuate from anger at their desperate situation, to a growing empathy for one another and the sudden realization that nature is indifferent to their fates . The men become fatigued and bicker with one another; nevertheless, the oiler and the correspondent take turns rowing toward shore, while the cook bails water to keep the boat afloat . When they see a lighthouse on the horizon, their hope is tempered with the realization of the danger of trying to reach it . Their hopes dwindle further when, after seeing a man waving from shore, and what may or may not be another boat, they fail to make contact . The correspondent and the oiler continue to take turns rowing, while the others sleep fitfully during the night . The correspondent then notices a shark swimming near the boat, but he does not seem to be bothered by it as one would expect . In the penultimate chapter, the correspondent wearily recalls a verse from the poem "Bingen on the Rhine" by Caroline Norton, in which a "soldier of the Legion" dies far from home . </P>

Who is the injured man in the open boat