I could work in iron, and our wrecked ship had brought the first iron to Raa Kook's land.
On occasion, ten leagues to the north-west, we went in canoes to get iron from the wreck.

The hull had slipped off the reef and lay in fifteen fathoms.

And in fifteen fathoms we brought up the iron.

Wonderful divers and workers under water were these natives.

I learned to do my fifteen fathoms, but never could I equal them in their fishy exploits.