All regarded him as their leader, as well as their comrade.

But Reuben Gale grumbled much that he had had no share in the adventures which had befallen his three friends.
"You have all three strange histories to tell.

You have seen wonderful things, and have journeyed and fought with wild men and Spaniards; while I, with equal goodwill, have never had the chance of doing more than join in the taking of Spanish caravels, where the resistance was so poor that children might have done the business." Ned laughed, and promised him that the next adventure he got into he would, if possible, have him as his comrade.
"We have a long voyage yet," he said.

"We have not gone much more than a third of the circumference of the world and, before we reach England, strange things may happen yet.

We left Plymouth with a noble fleet of six ships.