The master and chief-mate of the American brig agreed to act under him, and to assist in carrying la Dame across the ocean.
Mr Bryce, the chief-mate of the Flying Cloud, was one of those unfortunate men who are always more or less in an ill humour.
"Yes," rejoined a Guernsey-man from the bulwarks, who turned out to be the chief-mate.
“Sounds as though there was something wrong aboard the barque yonder, sir,” reported one of the men to the chief-mate.
Marble insisted on taking Talcott's place, and he now became my chief-mate, as I had once been his.
