This is extraordinary," he added, turning upon the junior officers.
"He must be out of his mind," replied one of them, the sailing-master.
"Out of his mind ?" rejoined the officer-of-the-deck.

"He's out of all reason; out of all men's knowledge and memories! Why, no one knows him; no one has ever seen him before; no imagination, in the wildest flight of a morbid nightmare, has ever so much as dreamed of him.

Who _are_ you ?" he again added, fierce with amazement.

"What's your name?
Are you down in the ship's books, or at all in the records of nature ?" "My name, sir, is Peter Perkins," said Israel, thinking it most prudent to conceal his real appellation.
"Certainly, I never heard that name before.

Pray, see if Peter Perkins is down on the quarter-bills," he added to a midshipman.