Weymouth and Corliss then got aboard, and came off to us.
"Well, boys, what sort of a dry storm have you been having here ?" said the captain as they came up under where we stood.
"Never saw such a hole!" exclaimed Weymouth.

"You don't know how we were slat about! We went _right up on it_! Had to pay out six fathoms of extra cable, anyway.

D'ye mind what a thundering noise that ice made ?" We went off to the schooner.

Trull stood awaiting us, grinning grimly.
"I don't gen'ly give advice to my betters," he began, with a hitch at his trousers; "but"-- "You'd be getting out of this ?" finished Raed.
"I wud, sur." There was a general laugh all round.

But the wind had set dead in the south-east again.