“No, my Lord, no. I was separated from him at that terrible moment, for I was swept off the deck as the ship struck.”
“Then you are not one of the two sailors mentioned in the document?”
“No; I was not aware of the existence of the document. The captain must have thrown it into the sea when I was no longer on board.”
“But the captain? What about the captain?”
“I believed he had perished; gone down with all his crew. I imagined myself the sole survivor.”
“But you said just now, Captain Grant was living.”
“No, I said, ‘if the captain is living.’”
“And you added, ‘he is on the Australian continent.’”
“And, indeed, he cannot be anywhere else.”
“Then you don’t know where he is?”