Then a few men sought the air, and others--I among them--went out of curiosity to see why the first did not return.

So, first by dozens and then by hundreds, we went and stood full of wonder, holding to the bulwark for the sake of steadiness.
It may be, sahib, that if I had the tongue of a woman and of a priest and of an advocate--three tongues in one--I might then tell the half of what there was to wonder at on that long journey.

Surely not otherwise.

Being a soldier, well trained in all subjects becoming to a horseman but slow of speech, I can not tell the hundredth part.
We--who had thought ourselves alone in all the sea--were but one ship among a number.

The ships proceeded after this manner--see, I draw a pattern--with foam boiling about each.