In an unguarded moment he had written that his schooner's name "was painted in showy gilt letters upon her garboard streak." "What's the garboard streak, Condy ?" Blix had asked, when he had read the chapter to her.
"That's where they paint her name," he declared promptly.

"I don't know exactly, but I like the sound of it." But the next day, when he was reading this same chapter to Captain Jack, the latter suddenly interrupted with an exclamation as of acute physical anguish.
"What's that?
Read that last over again," he demanded.
"'When they had come within a few boat's lengths,'" read Condy, "'they were able to read the schooner's name, painted in showy gilt letters upon her garboard streak.'" "My God!" gasped the Captain, clasping his head.

Then, with a shout: "Garboard streak! garboard streak?
Don't you know that the garboard streak is the last plank next the keel?
You mean counter, not garboard streak.

That regularly graveled me, that did!" They stayed to dinner with the couple that afternoon, and for half an hour afterward K.D.B.told them of the wonders of the caves of Elephantis.

One would have believed that she had actually been at the place.