Now six degrees at two thousand dollars each makes twelve thousand dollars for thirty men, that is four hundred dollars a head A nice little sum to slip into one's pocket on the return of the _Halbrane_; but, notwithstanding, that fellow Hearne works so wickedly upon his comrades that I believe they are ready to 'bout ship in spite of anybody." "I can believe that of the recruits, boatswain, but the old crew--" "H--m! there are three or four of those who are beginning to reflect, and they are not easy in their minds about the prolongation of the voyage." "I fancy Captain Len Guy and his lieutenant will how to get themselves obeyed." "We shall see, Mr.Jeorling.But may it not that our captain himself will get disheartened; that the sense of his responsibility will prevail, and that he will renounce his enterprise ?" Yes! this was what I feared, and there was no remedy on that side.
"As for my friend Endicott, Mr.Jeorling, I answer for him as for myself.

We would go to the end of the world--if the world has an end--did the captain want to go there.

True, we two, Dirk Peters and yourself, are but a few to be a law to the others." "And what do you think of the half-breed ?" I asked.
"Well, our men appear to accuse him chiefly of the prolongation of the voyage.

You see, Mr.Jeorling, though you have a good deal to do with it, you pay, and pay well, while this crazy fellow, Dirk Peters, persists in asserting that his poor Pym is still living--his poor Pym who was drowned, or frozen, or crushed--killed, anyhow, one way or another, eleven years ago!" So completely was this my own belief that I never discussed the subject with the half-breed.
"You see, Mr.Jeorling," resumed the boatswain, "at the first some curiosity was felt about Dirk Peters.

Then, after he saved Martin Holt, it was interest.