"The ocean is very big and a skiff is small and hard to see,"
the old man said. He noticed how pleasant it was to have someone to talk
to instead of speaking only to himself and to the sea. 去书内
The sailing was really full of hardships. The old man had a real feeling
of going home, and he felt warm and happy in the conversation with the
boy, which is a comparision with his loneliness, tension and tiredness
in the sea.