They knew it to be the hand of one of their former shipmates.
I began to see that here was one of the best of possible shipmates.
I judged at once that some of my shipmates must be drawing near along the borders of the fen.
The isle was uninhabited; my shipmates I had left behind, and nothing lived in front of me but dumb brutes and fowls.
After I had answered a lot of Garry O'Neil's questions concerning myself and the time I had passed in South America, speaking, too, of poor Colonel Vereker, whose death he had learnt from my mother, I began again, asking in my turn all about my old shipmates, and, of course, his own also.