By the knocking Nicholas I he'll plague you, now he's come over the herring-pond! When he was so high he had the spirit of thunder and lightning.' 'How did he get back from India ?' 'Why, how should I know?
The house there was done up; and that gave us a shake at Middleburgh, I think; so they sent me again to see what could be done among my old acquaintances here, for we held old stories were done away and forgotten.

So I had got a pretty trade on foot within the last two trips; but that stupid hounds-foot schelm, Brown, has knocked it on the head again, I suppose, with getting himself shot by the colonel-man.' 'Why were not you with them ?' 'Why, you see, sapperment! I fear nothing; but it was too far within land, and I might have been scented.' 'True.

But to return to this youngster--' 'Ay, ay, donner and blitzen! HE'S your affair,' said the Captain.
'How do you really know that he is in this country ?' 'Why, Gabriel saw him up among the hills.' 'Gabriel! who is he ?' 'A fellow from the gipsies, that, about eighteen years since, was pressed on board that d--d fellow Pritchard's sloop-of-war.

It was he came off and gave us warning that the Shark was coming round upon us the day Kennedy was done; and he told us how Kennedy had given the information.
The gipsies and Kennedy had some quarrel besides.

This Gab went to the East Indies in the same ship with your younker, and, sapperment! knew him well, though the other did not remember him.