When night came and the fire in the stove was out, Negoro went to the cabin which was assigned to him at the end of the crew's quarters.

Then he went to bed at once and went to sleep.
It has been already said that the "Pilgrim's" crew was composed of five sailors and a novice.
This young novice, aged fifteen, was the child of an unknown father and mother.

This poor being, abandoned from his birth, had been received and brought up by public charity.
Dick Sand--that was his name--must have been originally from the State of New York, and doubtless from the capital of that State.
If the name of Dick--an abbreviation of Richard--had been given to the little orphan, it was because it was the name of the charitable passer-by who had picked him up two or three hours after his birth.

As to the name of Sand, it was attributed to him in remembrance of the place where he had been found; that is to say, on that point of land called Sandy-Hook, which forms the entrance of the port of New York, at the mouth of the Hudson.
Dick Sand, when he should reach his full growth, would not exceed middle height, but he was well built.

One could not doubt that he was of Anglo-Saxon origin.