Seafaring people are odd in that way—I don’t mean in their ignorance of swimming, though, to be sure, the average sailor is seldom a swimmer. They’re so—how shall I express it?—so unenterprising. In the midst of adventure and romance they are stirred by no recognition either of the adventures or the romantic.

Question

I was a city-bred youngster, who had never been out of hail of the homeland before, and I possessed more enterprise in my little finger than that far-travelled Captain had in the whole of his weather-worn, hulking lump of a carcass.

Use the passage below to answer the question.

Which inference is best supported by the details in the passage?

(1 point)
Responses

Most people who travel by sea cannot swim.
Most people who travel by sea cannot swim.

The ship’s Captain has traveled widely.
The ship’s Captain has traveled widely.

Harborough grew up in a city.

Harborough grew up in a city.

Harborough feels he is superior to others.

Answer 1

The inference best supported by the details in the passage is:

Harborough feels he is superior to others.

This is evident as Harborough contrasts his own sense of enterprise and excitement with that of the Captain, suggesting a feeling of superiority over the more stoic and less adventurous demeanor of the seafaring people.