"But an explanation would be comfortable." "These men rescued me from the piece of broken boat to which I was clinging," Inza hastily explained.

"I was knocked overboard by the collision.

They are fishermen, and are now anchored on their fishing-grounds." "So I see.

But what about one of them chasing you, when you ran out of the cuddy this afternoon?
You tried to jump overboard!" "The men both thought me deranged by what I had passed through, and I suppose I may have acted strange.

I saw you and Bart on the raft, and I tried to make the men see you.