human
You see, sir, he said,
gpt
Oh, groaned the doctor to Rodd,
human
Don't be down-hearted, sir. Don't chuck up your pluck, young gentlemen, continued the poor fellow earnestly.
gpt
We must get out at last. It all seemed so easy as we come up; but without that Spanish chap, and now that it seems to be all turned upside down like, as we are coming back'ards, it's like looking for a needle in a bottle of hay. You see, me and my messmates have turned it all over in our heads, and it always comes to this, that that storm either made us take a wrong turning, or else that that Spaniard took us into a tangle of watercourses out of which no one but him and them niggers could find the way.
human
Yes, yes, said the doctor;
gpt
Ay, ay, sir! cried Joe.
human
And amazing it is; but we are not going to give up, sir. Wish we may all die if we do; for you see, it must all come right at last. We have a lot of provisions, plenty of powder and shot; we can't fail for fresh water, which is a great thing for sailors; there's wood enough to make fires for five hundred years; and as for good fish to eat, why, you could almost catch them with your hands.
gpt
No, my men, said the doctor, more firmly,
human
That's what I keep thinking, uncle, cried Rodd;