What are Captain West's duties?
So far he has done nothing, save eat three times a day, smoke many cigars, and each day stroll a total of one mile around the poop.

The mates do all the work, and hard work it is, four hours on deck and four below, day and night with never a variation.

I watch Captain West and am amazed.

He will loll back in the cabin and stare straight before him for hours at a time, until I am almost frantic to demand of him what are his thoughts.
Sometimes I doubt that he is thinking at all.

I give him up.