"We'd ha' been obliged to help 'em if they was top o' water." "'Thinkin' o' that myself," said Tom Platt.
"Fey! Fey!" said the cook, rolling his eyes.

"He hass taken his own luck with him." "Ver' good thing, I think, to tell the fleet when we see.

Eh, wha-at' ?" said Manuel.

"If you runna that way before the wind, and she work open her seams--" He threw out his hands with an indescribable gesture, while Penn sat down on the house and sobbed at the sheer horror and pity of it all.

Harvey could not realise that he had seen death on the open waters, but he felt very sick.
Then Dan went up the crosstrees, and Disko steered them back to within sight of their own trawl-buoys just before the fog blanketed the sea once again.
"We go mighty quick hereabouts when we do go," was all he said to Harvey.