I wish we'd had some more of old Jarks' dinner, and then gone to sleep quietly in our bunks.

We couldn't have been so badly off as we are now." "Then why did you propose for us to escape ?" "Because I thought we ought to try," said Vince sharply, as he suddenly changed his tone.

"There, it's of no use to talk, Mike.

We're in for it, and I'm not going to give up like a coward.

I don't know where we are, and you don't; but we're in one of those whirls that go round and round when the tide's running up or down, and we can't be any worse off than we are now, for there are no rocks, seemingly." "But the middle--the hole." "They don't have any hole.