He called to Mrs.Godfrey to look in the direction of his hand, which he was pointing over the port bow.

She could see nothing, but she headed the sloop in the direction that Paul gave, and in an hour's time had the satisfaction of seeing what she supposed to be the outline of rocks or land.

She kept the vessel headed in toward what she supposed to be land, and at three o'clock called her husband on deck.

The Captain judged his vessel to be on the east coast of Nova Scotia.
Margaret called her children around her, and asked Paul to sit down with them.

She opened the old service book and read a portion of scripture.
The deck was made an altar of the living God.