You miss such a lot of the view.
I sat with my face to the side of the vessel most of the way.

I don't exactly know what became of Jim.

He said afterwards he'd been astern watching the English coast disappear.

I suppose that accounted for his looking so jolly blue.

We weren't sorry to clear out of that boat, I can tell you.
Jim was first up the gangway, and I was third, owing to dropping my spare bags half-way up and having to pick them up.