"How shall we move him, doctor ?" "Call four of your men; we will carry him to your cabin in his chair, just as he sits; and we can do it without incommoding him at all," answered Dr.Linscott, as he sent his mate to call the men required.
"Really, Captain,"-- the sufferer began, but rather faintly.
"The surgeon thinks you had better not talk any more, Captain Rombold," interposed the commander.

"Here are the men, and we will handle you as tenderly as an infant." "You are as kind as the mother of the infant," added the sufferer with a slight smile; but he made no further opposition.
The four men lifted the chair, and the doctor instructed them how to carry it.

The Bellevite had been moved aft a little so as to bring the gangways of the two ships abreast of each other.

The commander was so interested and so full of sympathy for his injured enemy, now a friend, that he could not refrain from assisting with his own hands, and he directed the operations of the seamen when they came to the steps.

They lifted the chair down to the deck of the ship, and then it was borne to the captain's cabin.
The wounded commander was placed in the broad berth of the cabin, and the seamen sent on deck.