The long-boat had been turned upside down for a seat, the gratings and thwarts taken out and covered with wraps to make a couch for the lady, and the head knocked out of the keg of biscuits.
"We were frightened for you, Ephraim," said Amos Green.

"I had a heavy heart this night when I thought that I should never see you more." "Tut, Amos, you should have known me better." "But how came you here, captain ?" asked Tomlinson.

"I thought that maybe you had been taken down by the suck of the ship." "And so I was.

It is the third ship in which I have gone down, but they have never kept me down yet.

I went deeper to-night than when the _Speedwell_ sank, but not so deep as in the _Governor Winthrop_.