He came from the same village as Ulysses' ancestors, and he remembered the _Dotor_ with respect and admiration.

He had known this new captain when he was a little fellow and used to go fishing with his uncle.

In those days Toni was already a sailor on a coast-trading vessel, and his superiority in years had then justified his using the familiar thee and thou when talking with the lad Ulysses.
Finding himself now under his orders, he wished to change his mode of address, but the captain would not permit it.

Perhaps he and Toni were distant relatives,--all those living in that village of the _Marina_ had become related through long centuries of isolated existence and common danger.

The entire crew, from the first engineer to the lowest seaman, showed an equal familiarity in this respect.