“May we go aboard?” said the dark, Arab-looking man.
TRELAWNY AS THE OLD SEAMAN IN SIR JOHN E. MILLAIS’S PAINTING “THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE.”
“Wal, I don’t see why not,” answered the American mate, cheerfully and without ceremony.
“You have a beautiful vessel,” said the first speaker, once he had gained the deck. “We have been rowing about looking at the ships, and admiring yours.”
“I do expect now we have our new copper on, she has a look of the brass sarpent,” agreed the American.
“She seems so beautiful,” said the first speaker, “that we have been wishing we might have a vessel like her.”