"Your eyes are younger and sharper than mine.
Look again.

Do the bulwarks seem shattered ?" I took a long look.
"No, sir," I said.

"Everything seems quite right except the fore-topmast, which has snapped off, and is hanging in a tangle down to the deck." "But the fire ?" "That only looks, sir, as if they'd got a stove in the forecastle, and had just lit the fire with plenty of smoky coal." "Hah! That's all I can make out.

We've come to something at last, Mr Herrick." "Think so, sir ?" I said respectfully.
"Sure of it, my lad;" and he walked off to join the captain, while just then Ching came up softly and pointed forward.
"Big ship," he said.

"Pilate; all afire." "Think so ?" Ching nodded.
"Hallo, Gnat, what does the first luff say ?" asked Barkins, who joined us then.
"Thinks it's a vessel cast ashore by the pirates." "Maybe.