If I had been keeping the log, I should have made the following entry: "Captain got drunk.

A ring round the moon.

Alister and Dennis quarrelsome." I saw the ring round the moon when I was rowing the captain and the mate back from one of the islands, where they had been ashore.

Alfonso afterwards pointed it out to me and said, "Tell you, Jack, I'm glad dis ole tub in harbour now!" from which I concluded that it was an omen of bad weather.
Alister and Dennis were still sparring.

I began to think we'd better stretch a rope and let them have it out with their fists, but I could not make out that there was anything to fight about except that Alister had accused Dennis of playing the fool, and Dennis had said that Alister was about as good company as a grave-digger.