The naturalist boarded the Die Fliegenden Dudelsäcke bound, so he thought, for the Galapagos. Due to an unfortunate misunderstanding the Dudelsäcke was in fact a whaler bound for Nantucket, a fact which “Egg” only uncovered as the ketch rounded the hook of Holland and pushed out westward into the Channel. Calder demanded that he be brought off immediately, but the skipper, equally fond of the double entendre, did not take him literally, assumed this to be the usual salty talk you expect from sailors at the start of a long journey, and carried on towards Greenland.
