That seemed to the boys a very odd idea for a man who had never seen a palm in his life.

Then, too, regularly at each meal, he would ask Harvey, and Harvey alone, whether the cooking was to his taste; and this always made the "second half" laugh.

Yet they had a great respect for the cook's judgment, and in their hearts considered Harvey something of a mascot by consequence.
And while Harvey was taking in knowledge of new things at each pore and hard health with every gulp of the good air, the "We're Here" went her ways and did her business on the Bank, and the silvery-grey kenches of well-pressed fish mounted higher and higher in the hold.

No one day's work was out of the common, but the average days were many and close together.
Naturally, a man of Disko's reputation was closely watched--"scrowged upon," Dan called it--by his neighbours, but he had a very pretty knack of giving them the slip through the curdling, glidy fog-banks.

Disko avoided company for two reasons.