Stop a little--captain get in passion, and come up himself." And Mesty renewed the noise with the ropes over the cabin.

Mesty was right; in a few minutes the captain himself came up, boiling with indignation.

At the sound of the cabin-door opening, the seamen and our hero concealed themselves behind the companion-hatch, which was very high, so as to give the captain time to get fairly on deck.

The men already secured had been covered over with the gregos.

The captain was a most powerful man, and it was with difficulty that he was pinioned, and then not without his giving the alarm, had there been anyone to assist him; but as yet no one had turned out of his hammock.
"Now we all right," said Mesty, "and soon ab de ship; but I must make him 'fraid." The captain was seated down on the deck against one of the guns, and Mesty, putting on the look of a demon, extended above him his, long nervous arm, with the sharp knife clutched, as if ready every instant to strike it into his heart.