Only one was asleep, and he lying just at the foot of the companion-ladder, with a musket by his side.
Our companion-ladder was rigged on the instant, and a launch lowered.
Everything being ready, Peters now descended in the cabin, going down the companion-ladder until the water reached his chin.
Then I crept cautiously in the shadows of the dawn up the companion-ladder to the deck.
Up the companion-ladder for the last time, the doctor prodding me in the back with his load of blankets.
