One of the boats never was heard of." "And didn't another one of her boats get to Hawaii, sir ?" Daughtry queried with all due humility of respect.

"Leastwise, thirty years ago, when I was in Honolulu, I met a man, an old geezer, who claimed he'd been a harpooner on a whaleship sunk by a whale off the coast of South America.

That was the first and last I heard of it, until right now you speaking of it, sir.

It must a-been the same ship, sir, don't you think ?" "Unless two different ships were whale-sunk off the west coast," the Ancient Mariner replied.

"And of the one ship, the _Essex_, there is no discussion.