It's worth noticing, this way we all have of pondering for ourselves the enterprise, which, for others, we hold a bagatelle.
My first thoughts were of the boat to be obtained, and the right or wrong of abstracting it, under the circumstances.

But to split no hairs on this point, let me say, that were I placed in the same situation again, I would repeat the thing I did then.

The captain well knew that he was going to detain me unlawfully: against our agreement; and it was he himself who threw out the very hint, which I merely adopted, with many thanks to him.
In some such willful mood as this, I went aloft one day, to stand my allotted two hours at the mast-head.

It was toward the close of a day, serene and beautiful.

There I stood, high upon the mast, and away, away, illimitably rolled the ocean beneath.