I'm going to turn that cannon on you up there and blow every one of you to hell and gone before you get fifty feet from the side of this ship.

You don't believe that, eh?
Well, that's exactly what I'm going to do.

Lieutenant Platt!" He called over his shoulder in English to the young commander of the gun's crew.

"Get some of your men up there and train that gun so as to blow these boats to smithereens.

Quick!" In a half-whisper to the Captain: "It's all right.