human
Will your whaleboats live in a sea like this?
gpt
I guess they could, young man, if they are handled as we know how to handle them,
human
Then we may still hope to find the captain and mate,
gpt
If that whale did not smash up one of the boats with her flukes. If he did, twelve people would prove a heavy cargo in a sea like this, and she is likely enough to have been swamped.
human
I am afraid that some such accident must have occurred,
gpt
I guess you may not be far wrong,