“That is true.”
“Then there is the ocean letter-box.”
“What do you mean by the ocean letter-box?”
“Don’t you know what that is, Captain Clubin?”
“No.”
“When you pass the straits of Magellan——”
“Well.”
“Snow all round you; always bad weather; ugly down-easters, and bad seas.”
“Well.”
“When you have doubled Cape Monmouth——”