Nor does one meet men like him often.

We shall find naught but help from any other, if we may have to work our passage to their port.

That is of no account so long as we are picked up." In half an hour the breeze from the eastward reached us, and we bore up across the course of the coming ship.

She came swiftly down the wind, but was either badly steered, or else was so light that with her yard squared she ran badly.

At times the wind was almost spilt from out of her sail, and we looked to see her jibe, and then she would fill again on her true course and hold it a while.
"She is out of the way badly handled," said Bertric, watching her in some puzzlement.