It was best to be prudent.

Still, so much did I sympathize with the men, so far, at least, as their real grievances were concerned; and so convinced was I of the cruelty and injustice of what Captain Guy seemed bent upon, that if need were, I stood ready to raise a hand.
In spite of all we could do, some of them again became most refractory, breathing nothing but downright mutiny.

When we went below to dinner these fellows stirred up such a prodigious tumult that the old hull fairly echoed.

Many, and fierce too, were the speeches delivered, and uproarious the comments of the sailors.

Among others Long Jim, or--as the doctor afterwards called him--Lacedaemonian Jim, rose in his place, and addressed the forecastle parliament in the following strain: "Look ye, Britons! if after what's happened, this here craft goes to sea with us, we are no men; and that's the way to say it.