These sailors, of various nationalities, displayed zeal and good will.

They were aware, also, that the mate was a man whom it would not do to vex, for Hurliguerly had given them to understand that West would break any man's head who did not go straight.

His chief allowed him full latitude in this respect.
"A latitude," he added, "which is obtained by taking the altitude of the eye with a shut fist." I recognized my friend the boatswain in the manner of this warning to all whom it might concern.
The new hands took the admonition seriously, and there was no occasion to punish any of them.

As for Hunt, while he observed the docility of a true sailor in all his duties, he always kept himself apart, speaking to none, and even slept on the deck, in a corner, rather than occupy a bunk in the forecastle with the others.
Captain Len Guy's intention was to take the Sandwich Isles for his point of departure towards the south, after having made acquaintance with New Georgia, distant eight hundred miles from the Falklands.
Thus the schooner would be in longitude on the route of the _Jane_.
On the 2nd of November this course brought us to the bearings which certain navigators have assigned to the Aurora Islands, 30 deg.

15' of latitude and 47 deg.