"I congratulate you, Mr.Dodd, on having pulled it through." The captain's tones affected me profoundly; and when Johnson and the men pressed round me in turn with congratulations, the tears came in my eyes.
"These are five-tael boxes, more than two pounds," said Nares, weighing one in his hand.

"Say two hundred and fifty dollars to the mat.

Lay into it, boys! We'll make Mr.Dodd a millionnaire before dark." It was strange to see with what a fury we fell to.

The men had now nothing to expect; the mere idea of great sums inspired them with disinterested ardour.

Mats were slashed and disembowelled, the rice flowed to our knees in the ship's waist, the sweat ran in our eyes and blinded us, our arms ached to agony; and yet our fire abated not.