We know they've got the best of it--having the ship's stores--but we don't care for that.

They are a drunken, good-for-nothing crowd, and we are done with them." "All right, men, I think we can trust you," said Captain Blossom.
"It's a pity that Hackenhaven was lost overboard and eat up by the sharks.

We could rather have spared Lesher." "Or Dan Baxter," observed Tom.
"With three gone they have but eight men left on the wreck," said Sam.

"And we now number seven men and three ladies.

If we stand our ground, I can't see as we have much to fear from them." "It will be all right so long as they keep their distance," said Captain Blossom.