Ram Singh was the name of the younger, and it is only with him that I have come in contact, but they all appeared to be quiet, inoffensive gentlemen.

I never inquired their business, but I should judge that they were Parsee merchants from Hyderabad whose trade took them to Europe.

I could never see why the crew should fear them, and the mate, too, he should have had more sense." "Fear them I!" I ejaculated in surprise.
"Yes, they had some preposterous idea that they were dangerous shipmates.

I have no doubt if you were to go down into the kitchen now you would find that they are all agreed that our passengers were the cause of the whole disaster." As the captain was speaking the parlour door opened and the mate of the barque, a tall, red-bearded sailor, stepped in.

He had obtained a complete rig-out from some kind-hearted fisherman, and looked in his comfortable jersey and well-greased seaboots a very favourable specimen of a shipwrecked mariner.
With a few words of grateful acknowledgment of our hospitality, he drew a chair up to the fire and warmed his great, brown hands before the blaze.
"What d'ye think now, Captain Meadows ?" he asked presently, glancing up at his superior officer.