Chapter Four.
These were the people I saw most of, on that first day. The next I did not see any of them, for when I awoke next morning, it was to feel that there was a heavy sea on, which somehow, from experience, I took quite as a matter of course; but a deep groan below me, and sounding very startling, taught me that some one else was not taking it in the same fashion.
“That you, Dale?” came piteously.
“Yes; what’s the matter?”
“Oh, pray go and fetch the doctor. Some of that meat we had has upset me.”
I looked at him, and certainly he seemed very ill, as I hurriedly began to dress.
“Oh dear, oh dear,” he groaned, “I never felt so bad as this before.”
“I shan’t be long,” I said; “when did you begins to feel bad?”