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The fellow seems quiet enough , and as far as strength goes he do n't look stronger than a girl . '' After chatting for some time longer Mark and Dick Chetwynd went aft again . The Essex did not put into any intermediate port , and it was only on the sixth day after sailing that she approached Amsterdam . The voyage had passed off without any incident except that at nine o'clock one evening there had been a slight noise on deck and the sound of a fall . The friends went up at once . Several of the sailors had run aft , and Gibbons was explaining matters to them . `` I was walking up and down the deck , '' he said , `` when I saw this chap staring down through the skylight , and I said to him , ` I do n't call it good manners to be prying down into your betters ' cabin . '