Last year I sailed with him in the Swanne, alone." "You did not have any very stirring adventures ?" "No, we were mainly bent on exploring; but for all that we carried off many prizes, and might, had we been pilgrims, have bought farms in Devonshire, and settled down on our share of the prize money; but there, that is not the way with sailors.

Quick come, quick go, and not one in a hundred that I have ever heard of, however much he may have taken as his share of prizes, has ever kept it, or prospered greatly therefrom." It was now evening, and many of the men had betaken themselves to the water, for a swim.

The heat had been great all day, and as it was their last, they had been pressed at work to get the stores, which had been landed, again on board ship; and to finish all up, ready for the division of the party, next day.
"I do not care for bathing here," Ned said, in reply to a sailor, who asked him why he too did not join in the sport.

"I confess that I have a dread of those horrible sharks, of which we have heard so much, and whose black fins we see from time to time." "I should have thought," said the harsh, sneering voice of Giles Taunton, "that an Otter would have been a match for a shark.

The swimmers of the South Isles, and indeed the natives here, attack the sharks without fear.