The charts are all in the captain's cabin; and I know no more of the geography of these islands than I do of the South Seas, and that's nothing.

It's quite right to keep it dark; because, though I don't suppose many fellows on board any of the three craft would split upon us if he were captured, because, you see, we each have a share in the profits of the voyage as well as our regular pay, and, of course, we should lose that if those storehouses, which are pretty well choked up with goods, were to get taken, there's never any saying what some mean scamp might do if he were offered a handsome reward.

So the fewer as knows the secret the better." "Look Jacques! Look at that full-rigged ship that has just come out from behind that island.

She looks to me like a frigate." "And that she is," the sailor replied.

"Carries forty guns, I should say, by her size.