The deck was also cleaned.

Dick Sand did not wish his ship to arrive in port without having made a bit of toilet.

Without overworking the crew, a few hours spent each day at that work would bring it to a good end.
Though the novice could no longer throw the log, he was so accustomed to estimating the headway of a ship that he could take a close account of her speed.

He had then no doubt of reaching land before seven days, and he gave that opinion to Mrs.Weldon, after showing her, on the chart, the probable position of the ship.
"Well, at what point of the coast shall we arrive, my dear Dick ?" she asked him.
"Here, Mrs.Weldon," replied the novice, indicating that long coast line which extends from Peru to Chili.

"I do not know how to be more exact.