There is no way of telling how glad I was that the captain was with us.

I was well satisfied, anyway, to be with the party on the raft.

I might have liked it better in a boat, but I think most of the men in the boats were waiters, or stewards, or passengers--fellows who were in a hurry to get off.

The officers and sailors who remained behind to do their best for the ship and the passengers were the men on the raft; and these I felt we could trust.

I think there were ten of them, besides the captain, making fourteen of us in all.
There we all sat, while the ship blazed and crackled away, before us.
She drifted faster than we did, and so got farther and farther away from us.