But it was a veritable palace of delight and luxury to me after that terrible night, and I was soon hard and fast asleep in the skipper's own bunk--and was still asleep when he laid a hand on me at three o'clock that afternoon.
"We're in the Tay," he said, "and we'll dock in half an hour.

And now--you can't go ashore in your underclothing, man! And where's your purse ?" He had rightly sized up the situation.

I had got rid of everything but my singlet and drawers in the attempt to keep going; as for my purse, that was where the rest of my possessions were--sunk or floating.
"You and me's about of a build," he remarked.

"I'll fit you up with a good suit that I have, and lend you what money you want.

But what is it you're going to do ?" "How long are you going to stop here in Dundee, captain ?" I asked.
"Four days," he answered.