He just jumped on a sudden and came down on the brute as it was on the point of striking.

Had he stopped for one quarter of a second I should have been a dead man hours ago." "That was a near escape indeed, Jacques.

Are they pretty quiet there on shore?
I heard them shouting several times." "They seem quarreling a bit, captain; but they are sure to do that with all that liquor on hand." "They won't come to much harm," the captain said.

"I gave the strictest orders that all weapons should be left behind before they landed, and that any man carrying even a knife would have his leave stopped during the rest of the cruise.

Beside, the first mate is there to look after them.