Come, you share this watch with me.

Put some food into your body, and then keep sharp look-out ahead.

You see the entire crew of this vessel, save the two women; therefore, cease to be half a man and make yourself two." The fellow turned pale at this news, and cast a glance up and down the empty ship.

Then, without a word, he took up half a loaf and a mug of beer from the cabin table and walked forward.
"Humphrey," said Ludar, "get to bed, your turn will come." But to bed I could not go; and Ludar for once, I found, was not hard to persuade.
There was in truth much to be done before we could think of rest.
Together we overhauled the ship's rations, and found what would last us for long enough yet.

We examined, too, our ordnance, which was but meagre and ill-fashioned; we had three pieces on either side, besides a small swivel gun on poop and forecastle.