You and the mates will want some when we get into warmer climates." "Are we bound for the Mediterranean ?" Hawkins asked.
"To Gibraltar, to begin with.

What we shall do afterwards will depend upon what news I get there.

We may have to go round the world, for all I know." "Well, sir, I hope not, for your sake, and the young lady's; but as far as we are concerned, we would as lief go round the world as anything else, though she is not a very big craft for such a journey as that." "How long will the water tanks hold out ?" "That is where the pinch will come in, sir.

I reckon that at ordinary times we might make shift to go on for three weeks without filling up, but, you see, we have twenty hands instead of ten, and that will make all the difference..

I did get ten good-sized casks yesterday morning, and got them filled as well as the tanks.