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Updated: September 18, 2025
"It was very faint, and as I felt uncertain, I did not like to run the risk of disappointing you; but I have been thinking over the matter, and am persuaded that it was land. If it was, we shall have a better chance than I had hoped for of reaching it before long." "You thought dat land, Massa Shobbrok; so did I. Hurrah! Swim away, boys! swim away!
"I should be miserable without you," he answered. "No, I never will leave you, if I can help it, till we find our father though Mr Shobbrok and Nub take the best care of you they possibly can: had it not been for them, we should both have been lost." "Don't think that it's we who take care of you, my children," said the mate, who had been awakened by their voices.
"Oh, Massa Shobbrok, we have forgotten de harpoons!" exclaimed Nub. "So we have," answered the mate. "In my anxiety about Walter I forgot them." "Den I go up and get dem," said Nub; and he again climbed up the side of the whale.
"I have been thinking, Mr Shobbrok," observed Walter, "that I could make some fish-hooks from nails, with the help of a small file which I have in my knife; and as we have plenty of rope, we may unpick some of it, and twist some strong line."
Our old mate, Jacob Shobbrok, who has sailed with me pretty nearly since I came to sea, is as anxious to teach you as you can be to get instruction; but remember, Walter, you must begin at the beginning, and learn how to knot and splice, and reef, and steer, and box the compass, before you begin on the higher branches of seamanship.
"Shure, Mr Shobbrok, how are we to fight the wild bastes or savages, if they come, without arms?" asked Dan. "With regard to the savages, I do not, I confess, expect a visit from them; but if any do come, we must try to win their friendship," answered the mate. "As for the wild beasts, we will at once cut some long poles, and sharpen the ends in the fire to serve as lances.
I have begun a hook, and I think that I may be able to finish two or three more before night." "By all means. If Mr Shobbrok does not intend to commence immediately on the boat, we might take her into the middle of the harbour, or out to sea, and try what we can catch." The mate agreed to the doctor's proposal; so the next day they and Walter went off, taking Alice, who wished to accompany them.
"So we must leave all these luxuries and conveniences of life for the wild bush," said Walter, with a pretended sigh. "Well, well, we shall enjoy them so much the more when we come back again." "We are not likely to be long absent from home," observed Mr Shobbrok. "If we find that we are on the mainland, we will certainly not venture further into the interior.
"We go to get fresh water, and be back soon wid it," said Nub as they passed. "Mr Shobbrok, him roast de duck ready for breakfast." The doctor and his young companions hurried on, for their morning's walk had made them very hungry. They found the mate employed in roasting the duck in the usual camp fashion, on a spit supported by two forked sticks.
Some were spouting, others sounding, and others just coming up again to breathe. Mr Shobbrok steered for one which had just made its appearance above water; while the fourth mate's boat made way towards another huge monster which had already been blowing for some seconds. The first mate's boat approached the whale he had selected.
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