He looked round.
I waved my hand and shouted, 'Goodbye, Captain!' Then I sank lower and lower, and felt that it was all over, when, half in a dream, I heard your father's voice shout, 'Hold on, Ben!' I gave one more struggle, and then I felt him catch me by the arm.

I don't remember what happened, until I found myself lashed to the spar beside him.
"'That is right, Ben,' he said cheerily, as I held up my head; 'you will do now.

I had a sharp tussle to get you here, but it is all right.

We are setting inshore fast.

Pull yourself together, for we shall have a rough time of it in the surf.