The captain tried to allay my uneasiness by asserting that every ship admitted water, and ours only leaked a little more because it was so old.

I was obliged to be content with his explanation, as it was now too late to think of a change.

Fortunately we did not meet with any storms, and therefore incurred less danger.
Our journey lasted twenty days, during twelve of which we saw no land; the wind drove us too far east to see the Feroe or the Shetland Isles.

I should have cared less for this, had I seen some of the monsters of the deep instead, but we met with scarcely any of these amiable animals.

I saw the ray of water which a whale emitted from his nostrils, and which exactly resembled a fountain; the animal itself was unfortunately too far from our ship for us to see its body.