The consequences he left to others who had more years before them than he himself.

He loved to dwell on the glories of seamen, especially Devonshire seamen, whose descendants he had known from his boyhood.

The open sea and the open air, the stars and the waves, were akin to him.

His companions sometimes thought that he cared too little for the perils of the deep.

A lady who went boating with him, and hazarded the opinion that they would be drowned, got no warmer comfort than "Very likely," which struck her as grim.