Presently the master's mate said: "Do one thing or the other and be quick about it."

"I think you get given instructions when you're alive," said the mate.

"I think," said the mate, "that these men had better stay in the boat."

The mate says that he never knew it so warm in these latitudes.

As the first mate had said, the whale was making for the other boat.

He took stick from everyone his mates said it was about time they had a good laugh.

A mate of mine he says he won't tell you for about three or four years.

"I believe that's what my mate said to me the last time we spoke."

Despite all my mates said, it was fairly safe in the Chinese quarter.