The boat was gradually detaching itself from the dock.

They were going to draw in the gangplank which had served as a bridge.
"I'm going, too," said Kaledine.

This trip interests Ulysses, who was disposed not to be surprised at anything in this extraordinary voyage, merely exclaimed courteously, "So much the better!" He was no longer concerned with him, and devoted all his efforts to conducting the boat out of the little harbor, directing its course through the gulf.

The glass windows on the shore of S.Lucia trembled with the vibration of the motor of the decrepit steamer--an old and scandalous piece of machinery imitating the paddling of a tired dog.

Meanwhile the sails were unfurled and swelling under the first gusts of the wind.
The trip lasted three days.