human
I'll show I ain't a pincher, Nishikanta announced one day, after having broiled at the mast-head for five hours of sea-searching.
gpt
Captain Doane, how much could we have bought extra chronometers for in San Francisco--good second-hand ones, I mean?
human
Say a hundred dollars,
gpt
Very well. And this ain't a piker's proposition. The cost of such a chronometer would have been divided between the three of us. I stand for its total cost. You just tell the sailors that I, Simon Nishikanta, will pay one hundred dollars gold money for the first one that sights land on Mr. Greenleaf's latitude and longitude.