Meanwhile, I shall have your belongings got on board, and then, I suppose, we had better sink that craft of yours.

If we leave her to knock about the ocean she may be knocking against some ship in the night and doing her a mischief." After I had eaten the "square meal" set for me in the ward-room, and spent a few minutes with Angela, I joined the captain and first lieutenant in the former's state-room, and over a glass of grog, told them briefly, but frankly, something of my life and adventures.
"Well, it is the queerest yarn I ever heard; but I dare say none the less true on that account," said Captain Bigelow, when I had finished.

"With that sweet lady for your wife and your belt full of diamonds, you may esteem yourself one of the most fortunate of men.

And you did quite right to get away from that place.

But what was your point?
where did you expect to get to with that sloop of yours ?" "Callao." "Callao! Why the course you were on would never have taken you to Callao.
Callao lies nor' by east, not nor' by west.