shipwrecky

"I was only joking. We've escaped from a burning vessel, you know, and every one else is either burned or drowned. We've provisions for a month, if we don't eat too much, and we're in the South Sea Islands. South Sea Islands sound nice and shipwrecky, don't you think so?"

So there I was, standing by the roadside in pitch darkness with my belongings and shipwrecky knees.