He frequently communicated to Ferragut his opinion regarding his new comrades.

With good reason he had said that they would understand each other!...

They were serious and religious men, and he preferred them to the former Mediterranean crews, blasphemers and incapable of resignation, who at the slightest vexation would rip out God's name, trying to affront him with their curses.
They were all muscular and well set-up with blue eyes and blonde mustaches, and were wearing hidden medallions.

One of them had presented to the cook one of his religious charms which he had bought on a pilgrimage to _Ste.

Anne d'Auray_.