"Here, hi! Where are you ?" He paused, and they all listened.

He shouted again and again, but with no result, and turning to the second-mate he said: "The poor wretch is insensible, I'm afraid." "Yes, he seems beyond answering.

Where do you make him out to be ?" "That's what I can't make out," said the first-mate.

"It's just as if he were practising ventriloquism.

Sometimes it sounds to the right and sometimes to the left." "Yes, that's how it strikes me," said the second-mate.