Negoro had not pronounced a single word, but his face had grown pale
for a moment. Letting go of his hand-spike, he regained his cabin.

"Hercules," then said Dick Sand, "I charge you especially to watch over
that man."

"I shall watch," simply replied Hercules, clenching his two enormous
fists in sign of assent.

Mrs. Weldon and Dick Sand then turned their eyes again on the
whale-boat, which the four oarsmen bore rapidly away.

It was nothing but a speck on the sea.

* * * * *




CHAPTER VIII.

THE JUBARTE.


Captain Hull, an experienced whaler, would leave nothing to chance. The
capture of a jubarte is a difficult thing. No precaution ought to be
neglected. None was in this case.

And, first of all, Captain Hull sailed so as to come up to the whale on