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`` Perhaps you will leave me my deck all to myself . '' `` I should be delighted : but my anxiety will not let me . '' With this Dodd retired a few steps , and kept a keen look-out . At noon a lusty voice cried `` Land on the weather beam ! '' All eyes were turned that way and saw nothing . Land in sight was reported to Captain Robarts . Now that worthy was in reality getting secretly anxious : so he ran on deck crying , `` Who saw it ? ''