"Curse it all!" he cried; "the fool has been and got some more rum.

Fifty guineas to the man that will shin up the tow-rope and throw that madman into the sea; then we can pick him up.
He swims like a cork." A sailor instantly darted forward to the rope.

But, unfortunately, Hudson heard this proposal, and it enraged him.

He got to his cutlass.

The sailor drew the boat under the ship's stern, but the drunken skipper flourished his cutlass furiously over his head.