"Didn't I warn you what would be the upshot of having those niggers on board the _Belinda_ ?" The captain leant back in his chair and laughed heartily.
"Didn't I tell you ?" he cried, appealing to us.

"Didn't I tell you ?" "It might have been no laughing matter for us," the other remarked petulantly.

"I have lost a good sea-kit and nearly my life into the bargain." "Do I understand you to say," said I, "that you attribute your misfortunes to your ill-fated passengers ?" The mate opened his eyes at the adjective.
"Why ill-fated, sir ?" he asked.
"Because they are most certainly drowned," I answered.
He sniffed incredulously and went on warming his hands.
"Men of that kind are never drowned," he said, after a pause.

"Their father, the devil, looks after them.

Did you see them standing on the poop and rolling cigarettes at the time when the mizzen was carried away and the quarter-boats stove?
That was enough for me.