I take it that in the West Indies you never know what change is coming." "Correct, Peter, but it's all a matter of temperament.

You like what you like, because you're made that way, and you can't alter it, but the West Indies have seen rare deeds.

Did you ever hear of Morgan, the great buccaneer ?" "Who hasn't ?" "There was a man for you! No law but his own! Willing to sack the biggest and strongest cities on the Spanish Main and did it, too! Ah, Peter, 'twould have been a fine thing to have lived in his day and to have done what he did." "I shouldn't care to be a pirate, no matter how powerful, and no matter how great the reward." "Again it's just a matter of temperament.

I'm not trying to change you, and you couldn't change me." Came another calm, longer than the first.

They hung about for days and nights on a hot sea, and captain and crew alike showed anxiety and impatience.