We'll find a corner to sleep in.

And let me tell ye I've tried getting into a hammock myself, and--" "Hi! you lads!" In no small confusion at having been found idle and together, we started to salute the third mate, who pointed to a sailor behind him, and said--"Follow Francis, and he'll give you hammocks and blankets, and show you how to swing and stow them." We both exclaimed--"Thank you, sir!" with such warmth that as he returned our renewed salutations he added--"I hear good accounts of both of you.

Keep it up, and you'll do." Alister's sentence had been left unfinished, but I learnt the rest of it by experience.

We scrambled down after Francis till we seemed to be about the level where we had stowed away.

I did not feel any the better for the stuffiness of the air and an abominable smell of black beetles, but I stumbled along till we arrived in a very tiny little office where the purser sat surrounded by bags of ships' biscuits (which they pleasantly call "bread" at sea) and with bins of sugar, coffee, &c., &c.