Half a dozen sea-captains witnessed the whole affair.

Noakes retreated to the small after-cabin of his ship, with two other bullies, and gave out that death would be the portion of any man that intruded there.

There was no attempt made to follow the villains; there was no disposition to do it, and indeed very little thought of such an enterprise.

There were no courts and no officers; there was no government; the islands belonged to Peru, and Peru was far away; she had no official representative on the ground; and neither had any other nation.
However, Capt.

Ned was not perplexing his head about such things.