Let's hail her.' He sang out, 'Whoop! ahoy!' I meanwhile had caught sight of Joe.
'Well, young gentleman!' he accosted me, and he hoped I had slept well.
My courteous request to him to bid the tug stand by to take us on board, only caused him to wear a look of awful gravity.

'You're such a deuce of a sleeper,' he said.

'You see, we had to be off early to make up for forty hours lost by that there fog.

I tried to wake you both; no good; so I let you snore away.

We took up our captain mid-way down the river, and now you're in his hands, and he'll do what he likes with you, and that 's a fact, and my opinion is you 'll see a foreign shore before you're in the arms of your family again.' At these words I had the horrible sensation of being caged, and worse, transported into the bargain.
I insisted on seeing the captain.