For my own part, I must adhere to my belief that it will be advisable to tell them everything.

Have you any opinion to offer, count ?" "My own opinion, captain, coincides entirely with yours.

I have followed the plan of explaining all I could to my men on board the _Dobryna_, and no inconvenience has arisen." "Well, then, so let it be," said the captain; adding, "It is not likely that these Spaniards are so ignorant as not to have noticed the change in the length of the days; neither can they be unaware of the physical changes that have transpired.

They shall certainly be told that we are being carried away into unknown regions of space, and that this island is nearly all that remains of the Old World." "Ha! ha!" laughed Ben Zoof, aloud; "it will be fine sport to watch the old Jew's face, when he is made to comprehend that he is flying away millions and millions of leagues from all his debtors." Isaac Hakkabut was about fifty yards behind, and was consequently unable to overhear the conversation.

He went shambling along, half whimpering and not unfrequently invoking the God of Israel; but every now and then a cunning light gleamed from his eyes, and his lips became compressed with a grim significance.
None of the recent phenomena had escaped his notice, and more than once he had attempted to entice Ben Zoof into conversation upon the subject; but the orderly made no secret of his antipathy to him, and generally replied to his advances either by satire or by banter.