If you would permit me to baptize you--" "So be it, Hurliguerly," said I, putting my hand into my pocket.
"Baptize as you please.

Here is something to drink my health with at the nearest tavern." "Then that will be Bennet Islet or Tsalal Island, provided there are any taverns in those savage islands, and any Atkinses to keep them." "Tell me, boatswain--I always get back to Hunt--does he seem so much pleased to have passed the Polar Circle as the _Halbrane's_ old sailors are ?" "Who knows?
There's nothing to be got out of him one way or another.

But, as I have said before, if he has not already made acquaintance with the ice-barrier." "What makes you think so ?" "Everything and nothing, Mr.Jeorling.One feels these things; one doesn't think them.

Hunt is an old sea-dog, who has carried his canvas bag into every corner of the world." The boatswain's opinion was mine also, and some inexplicable presentiment made me observe Hunt constantly, for he occupied a large share of my thoughts.
Early in December the wind showed a north-west tendency, and that was not good for us, but we would have no serious right to complain so long as it did not blow due south-west.

In the latter case the schooner would have been thrown out of her course, or at least she would have had a struggle to keep in it, and it was better for us, in short, not to stray from the meridian which we had followed since our departure from the New South Orkneys.