I'll learn you to come aboard this ship without an invite." He seized Noakes, backed him against the mainmast, pounded his face to a pulp, and then threw him overboard.
Noakes was not convinced.

He returned the next night, got the pulp renewed, and went overboard head first, as before.
He was satisfied.
A week after this, while Noakes was carousing with a sailor crowd on shore, at noonday, Capt.

Ned's colored mate came along, and Noakes tried to pick a quarrel with him.

The negro evaded the trap, and tried to get away.

Noakes followed him up; the negro began to run; Noakes fired on him with a revolver and killed him.