The mate was the first, but mark me words, there'll be more dead men before the trip is done with.

Hist, now, between you an' meself and the stanchion there, this Wolf Larsen is a regular devil, an' the _Ghost'll_ be a hell-ship like she's always ben since he had hold iv her.

Don't I know?
Don't I know?
Don't I remember him in Hakodate two years gone, when he had a row an' shot four iv his men?
Wasn't I a-layin' on the _Emma L._, not three hundred yards away?
An' there was a man the same year he killed with a blow iv his fist.

Yes, sir, killed 'im dead-oh.

His head must iv smashed like an eggshell.