As soon as things can be arranged--in a day or two, at farthest--you will go to sea for a three months' cruise, touching here, at the end of it, for your captain.

Let me hear a good report of you, now, when you come back.
At present, you will continue lying off and on the harbour.

I will send you fresh provisions as soon as I can get them.

There: I've nothing more to say; go forward to your stations." And, without another word, he wheeled round to descend into the cabin.
But hardly had he concluded before the incensed men were dancing about him on every side, and calling upon him to lend an ear.

Each one for himself denied the legality of what he proposed to do; insisted upon the necessity for taking the ship in; and finally gave him to understand, roughly and roundly, that go to sea in her they would not.
In the midst of this mutinous uproar, the alarmed consul stood fast by the scuttle.