but he rallies. ‘i seek a passage in this ship to tarshish; how soon sail ye, sir?’ thus far the busy captain had not looked up to jonah, though the man now stands before him; but no sooner does he hear that hollow voice, than he darts a scrutinizing glance. ‘we sail with the next coming tide,’ at last he slowly answered, still intently eyeing him. ‘no sooner, sir?’—‘soon enough for any honest man that goes a passenger.’ ha! jonah, that’s another stab. but he swiftly calls away the captain from that scent. ‘i’ll sail with ye,’—he says,—‘the passage money how much is that?—i’ll pay now.’ for it is particularly written, shipmates, as if it were a thing not to be overlooked in this history, ‘that he paid the fare thereof’ ere the craft did sail. and taken with the context, this is full of meaning.