A Malay diver had very much annoyed him, and in his fury he picked up a heavy broom with a stick fully four feet long, and felled the poor fellow senseless to the deck with it.

I was shocked at such awful brutality, and ventured to protest against it.

"Captain," I said, "don't do anything like that again whilst I am aboard." Turning round in a great passion he ordered me to keep my own counsel, otherwise he would have me put in irons.

But for all that Jensen never again let his temper get the better of him to such an extent in my presence.

He was always very gruff in his manner, and looked upon me as the "darndest fool he had ever met." These divers, by the way, never seemed to trouble about the value of the treasure they were constantly bringing to the surface.