Fortunately for him the ship was becalmed at the time.

With the aid of a line and a boat hook which one of his mates fastened firmly to his collar, he was drawn aboard.

His appearance was certainly far from god-like.

Paul often enjoyed the conversation of sun old sailor named Joe Clark.

He was a misanthropist at the unjust inequality that existed in the conditions of life, and often sung a verse of his own composition which gave him intense satisfaction, as he chanted it while sewing sails or making sennet.