I think it was from him that certain of the crew took the word "crazy." They used it until one would think that for pure variety's sake they would find another! The sixth day from Palos there lifted from sea the peak of Teneriffe.
This day, passing on some errand the open door of the great cabin, I saw the Admiral seated at the table.

Looking up, he saw me, gazed an instant, then lifted his voice.

"Come in here!" He sat with a great chart spread upon the table before him.

Beside it the log lay open, and he had under his hand a book in which he was writing.

Door framed blue sky and sea, a pleasant wind was singing in a pleasant warmth, the great cabin which, with the rest of the ship, he made to be kept very clean, was awash with light and fineness of air.
"Would you like to look at the chart ?" he asked, and I came and looked over his shoulder.
"I made it," he said.