"No, sir; as Mr Callard says, it's our duty to strive as long as we can.  Our lives are in the hand of God.  He may find means to enable us to escape, though we do not in our blindness see them.  Perhaps it may fall a dead calm, and we may make use of our sweeps; or a squall may spring up and carry away the stranger's masts; or another vessel may heave in sight, and she may think it wise to slip out of the way."