He replied, he could not tell; but one of the two persons walking about could answer me, as he had sailed out and returned in her.

This man came up to us, and joined in conversation.

He answered my question and many others, and would have shown me the ship.

But on asking him how many seamen had died on the voyage, he changed his manner, and said, with apparent hesitation, he could not tell.

I asked him next, what had become of the steward Green.