It would have been visible from a big ship at a much greater distance, but no one would ever imagine what it really was.

Yamba sat near me in the stern, but her husband curled himself up at the opposite end of the boat; and from the time we reached the open sea practically until we gained the main, he did not relax his attitude of reserve and dogged silence.

He ate and drank enormously, however.

You would have thought we were in a land flowing with milk and honey, instead of an open boat with limited provisions and an unknown journey in front of us.

He did exert himself sufficiently on one occasion, however, to dive overboard and capture a turtle.