He had no care for the possible troubles which were before us, knowing naught of the sea; but this calm made the Saxon and myself anxious enough.
"After all," I said, "maybe it will only be a matter of hunger for a day or two." Bertric smiled, and pointed to the locker under the stern thwart, on which I was sitting.
"I think I told you that you were but a few minutes before me in this matter," he said.

"Well, when I heard that Asbiorn would take the boat, I knew my chance had come.

So I dropped six of your barley loaves into her as she lay alongside the wharf, and stowed them aft when I went to bale out the rain water that was in her.
The men were too much taken up with the plunder to mind what I was about.

I think your little water breaker is full also.

It is there, and I tried it." "Why, then, that will carry us far enough," I said.