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He had hardly finished this explanation when we touched the side of the Suwarna , and I was forced to curb my curiosity until we reached the deck . `` That thing you saw me sitting on , '' he said , after he had thanked the bowing little skipper for his rescue , `` was all that was left of one of his Majesty 's best little hydroairplanes after that cyclone threw it off as excess baggage . And by the way , about where are we ? '' Da Costa gave him our approximate position from the noon reckoning . O'Keefe whistled . `` A good three hundred miles from where I left the H.M.S. Dolphin about four hours ago , '' he said . `` That squall I rode in on was some whizzer !