F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Capitolo 71

"Man what finds his/her navigation on board of ship knows his/her business. Found mine
there;  yes, gentleman! Did'nt knows a Bowditch from a Bible when I went on board
ship. You/he/she can now make my ampleness and my variations without looking to a
nautical almanac. , Mr., from Jove!"

The ship gallantly limited on the sea, while going away to its funeral vigil a long
silvery train of light of phosphoric. Not deducing answered by the Mr. Higgins,
the captain raised his/her night-glass and analyzed along the skies to the
west. "We will find somethin' out or' that quarter, end of big barrel first", says
the captain, lowering his/her glass.

The Mr. Higgins was official before of the ship, a position it assured to him,
not because he had worked above his/her way to him, but through the influence of
a rich father that was a great owner in the ship and his/her hazard. He was
a tall, well-formed, while excellent-looking young, with delicate and well-cut
characteristics and black hair. He was also an excellent researcher and a perfect
master of the theory of navigation and a trip or two to Europe had
the datum a disdains knowledge of his practical part. Still he was
more an ornamental that a practical sailor;  and it was this that has done
Heads Bottom, the whale-assassin holds him/it in any very tall respect.
He had said a lot of times indeed, in the presence of the Mr. Higgins that
it was very well entirely for a young gentleman to be a researcher;  but a sailor
what never had his/her head full of books constituted a fortune his/her owners.

"Otto and forty hours more, the Mr. Higgins! Yes, gentleman, eight and forty
more times--the keepin' she as her is going--and we have the earth street Bahia."
Heads Bottom it was given the head a meaningful it shakes as he spoke. "Using
you judge, you see;  you don't hover, the Mr. Higgins. Heads Price Fund it has
experienced seventeen years, and you/he/she was never deceived by that chart. Doesn't do
charts now as them they did 'em, the Mr. Higgins" that he has concluded,
shrugging his/her shoulders.

The wind now came on to roar maritime as a fierce lion, while pointing out