All his crew have perished with him.

The fate of the ship is in your hands! Dick, you will save the ship and those on board!" "Yes, Mrs.Weldon," replied Dick Sand, "yes! I shall attempt it, with the aid of God!" "Tom and his companions are honest men on whom you can depend entirely." "I know it, and I shall make sailors of them, and we shall work together.

With fine weather that will be easy.

With bad weather--well, with bad weather, we shall strive, and we shall save you yet, Mrs.
Weldon--you and your little Jack, both! Yes, I feel that I shall do it." And he repeated: "With the aid of God!" "Now, Dick, can you tell where the 'Pilgrim' is ?" asked Mrs.Weldon.
"Easily," replied the novice.

"I have only to consult the chart on board, on which her position was marked yesterday by Captain Hull." "And will you be able to put the ship in the right direction ?" "Yes, I shall be able to put her prow to the east, nearly at the point of the American coast that we must reach." "But, Dick," returned Mrs.Weldon, "you well understand, do you not, that this catastrophe may, and indeed must, modify our first projects?
It is no longer a question of taking the 'Pilgrim' to Valparaiso.