and to starboard is a single stateroom, with access to the engine room directly across the hall. The door to the engine room is watertight but paneled in mahogany — a lovely touch that speaks to the sort of attention ...

with the densest, lushest jungle you can imagine and one of them would suddenly cut the engine and whisper, "Two o ... to double back and kill the engine…and there it was: a green tree boa or a caiman crocodile, its eyes ...