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I was one of the crew of the second cutter then, and in the beautiful calm weather we used to take the doctor and the second luff out in this Sargassey Sea, which used to look sometimes as if we were floating about in green fields." "Oh, you mean the Sargasso Sea!" cried Rodd. "Nay, I don't, sir; I means the Sargassey Sea." "Well, that's the same thing, only you spell it differently," cried Rodd.
Most I seed there was green, and put me in mind of them little chaps as we have at home with the yaller heads you know, sir; them as cries, `A little bit of bread and no cheese. And you see them up country, a-twittering among the hedges." "Yes, I know," said Rodd sharply; "but what about the Sargassey Sea?" "Ah! I'm thinking it was after that we come to that sea, only I aren't quite sure, sir.
But if I recollect right, they say it shifts about according to what sort of weather we have." "Well, so does every sea," cried Rodd, "when the waves are running high." "Ah, but they don't run high here, sir. You see, the Sargassey Sea aren't like other seas, and I suppose it's only part of the Atlantic after all.
Then I suppose some time we shall come upon that there Sargassey Sea." "Where's that?" asked Rodd. "Right away down south, sir. Let's see, if I remember right we falls in with that soon after you pass the islands." "What islands?" "Let's see; I ought to know, sir.
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