Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London

And the fine weather continues, and we wonder how long a time must
elapse ere our mutineers eat up their mysterious food and are starved
back to work.

We are almost due west of Valparaiso and quite a bit less than a
thousand miles off the west coast of South America. The light
northerly breezes, varying from north-east to west, would, according
to Mr. Pike, work us in nicely for Valparaiso if only we had sail on
the Elsinore. As it is, sailless, she drifts around and about and
makes nowhere save for the slight northerly drift each day.