What is the course ?" "Sou'west, by half sou'." "We might be carrying more canvas." "There is nothing to hurry about, and the fog is thick." "That will probably lift within an hour.

Do you know your position ?" "Only in a general way.

We have held an east by south course since leaving the Capes, until an hour ago, making about ten knots." "Very well, I will figure it out as best I can, and mark it on the chart.

There is nothing further to report ?" "No Senor; all has been as it is now." He glanced toward Estada, not greatly pleased I presume with my brusqueness, yet finding nothing in either words or manner from which to evoke a quarrel.

The latter had overheard our conversation, but he stood now with back toward us looking out on the sea off the port quarter.