He's not black-hearted like some men.

'Tis no heart he has at all.

Wolf, just wolf, 'tis what he is.

D'ye wonder he's well named ?" "But if he is so well-known for what he is," I queried, "how is it that he can get men to ship with him ?" "An' how is it ye can get men to do anything on God's earth an' sea ?" Louis demanded with Celtic fire.

"How d'ye find me aboard if 'twasn't that I was drunk as a pig when I put me name down?
There's them that can't sail with better men, like the hunters, and them that don't know, like the poor devils of wind-jammers for'ard there.