However, he didn't have much to do with me; I took my turn at the lookout with the rest of them, and besides that there was nothing to do.

The men on shore had all been in one or other of the ships when I was taken; for I found there were about a hundred and sixty of them, and a quarter stayed at home by turns, changing after each cruise, whether it was a long or short one.
"The captain's wife often spoke to me now; she would come out and sit in the veranda while I was at work.

She asked me what part I came from, and where I had sailed, and what friends I had at home.

But she never said a word to me about the capture of the ship.

She always looked sad now, while she had been cheerful and bright while the captain was on shore.
In time she got quite friendly with me, and one day she said, 'Peter, you will have to go to sea next time, what will you do ?' "'I must do as the others do, God forgive me,' says I; 'but don't think, ma'am, as ever I shall do it willing.