The captain received them on board the _Boudeuse_ with marked courtesy, and informed them that he was bound direct for Havre de Grace.
"It seems, then," said the Pilot, "that neither America nor England is to be our destination after all.

But never mind, there are no lack of surgeons amongst the _mounseers_." "If we go on this way much longer," said Jack, sighing, "we shall be carried round the world without arriving anywhere.

Alas, my poor mother!".