"How long have you been hearing them?" Bob asked.
"A matter uv ten minutes or mebby a bit more."
"Sounds to me as though there was a lot of them," Jack declared as the sounds grew louder for an instant.
"Don't you think we'd better call the captain and uncle?" Bob asked.
"It's meself as jest sint one ov the byes to do thot thing," Pat told them.
"Then they'll be here in a minute," Bob said.
"If we could only see a little better," Jack mused as he leaned over the rail.
"Yes, I'd like to know if they have boats," Bob said.
Just then Captain Ole, clad only in trowsers and shirt, joined them.
"What's up?" he asked.