Hurlstone did not reply.
"Where away?" asked a second voice.
The murmur still continuing, Captain Bunker's hoarse voice pierced the gloom,—"Silence fore and aft!"
The first voice repeated faintly,—
"On the larboard bow."
There was another silence. Again the voice repeated, as if mechanically,—
"Breakers!"
"Where away?"
"On the starboard beam."
"We are in some passage or channel," said Hurlstone quietly.