human
You heard it?
gpt
Sartain, sir--no man could mistake _that_. It was the voice of the nigger, Joe; him that Captain Daggett has for a cook.
human
Think you so, Stephen? The fellow has good lungs, and they may have set him to call upon us in their distress. What can be the nature of the assistance they ask?
gpt
I've been thinking of that, Captain Gardner; and a difficult p'int it is to answer. Food they must have still; and was they in want of their rations, hands would have been sent across to get 'em. They may have let their fire go out, and be without the means to re-light it. I can think of nothing else that is likely to happen to men so sarcumstanced.