I don't believe we've gone a hundred miles.

We want to search the whole coast, I tell you, to the lower end of Florida." "You can't do it in this boat," he said; "she's too small." "Why didn't you say so when we took her ?" "Well, there wasn't any other, in the first place, and besides, it wouldn't be no good to go no further.

It's more 'n four days, now, since them boats set out.

There's no chance fur anybody on 'em to be livin'." "That's not for you to decide," I said, and I was very angry.

"We want to find our friends, dead or alive, or find some news of them, and we want to cruise until we know there's no further chance of doing so." "Well," said he, ringing the bell to go ahead, sharp, "I'm not decidin' anything.