"We have ten miles to make: with this breeze, how long will it take for this boat to do it ?" "If she sails as well as mine did, she will make it in two hours." The craft was about twenty feet long, and was sharp at both ends.

She had a cuddy forward, which was large enough to accommodate both of her crew in a reclining posture.

It had been furnished with a couple of berthsacks, and with several blankets.

The provisions and water had been placed in it, as well as a couple of lanterns, ready for use if occasion should require.
It was a summer sea in this latitude, with a very steady breeze from the westward.

The overcoats they wore were hardly necessary, and they had put them on mainly to conceal their changed garments from the crew of the ship, who could only conjecture what the expedition meant.
"You are a younger man than I am, Christophe, and you have slept only a couple of hours to-night," said M.Rubempre, as soon as the Eleuthera was well under way; and the remark was called forth by a long gape on the part of the younger person.