But I want to see my mother.

I have got a shawl for her in my chest." Marco was shocked to hear a young man speak in such a manner of his father.

Still there was something in the frankness and openness of the sailor's manner, which pleased him very much.

He liked to hear his odd and sailor-like language too, and he accordingly entered into a long conversation with him.

The sailor gave him an account of his adventures on the voyage; how he was drawn off from the ship one day, several miles, by a whale which they had harpooned;--how they caught a shark, and hauled him in on deck by means of a pulley at the end of the yard-arm;--and how, on the voyage home, the ship was driven before an awful gale of wind for five days, under bare poles, with terrific seas roaring after them all the way.