He tossed him into the bottom of the boat, five of the boat's crew being still in their seats, trailing their oars, for only seven of them had been able to get on board of the Magnolia for the want of space.
"Tie his hands behind him," added Mr.Pennant to the men, who fell upon Flanger the moment he lighted in the bottom of the cutter.
The prisoner was disposed to make further resistance, but two men fell upon him and made him fast to one of the thwarts.

The leader of the party, as he appeared to be from the first, could do no further mischief, and the lieutenant gave his attention to the others on board of the sloop.

The dignified gentleman, who was dressed in black clothes, though they had suffered not a little from contact with grease and tar, had seated himself in the standing room.

He looked like a man of many sorrows, and his expression indicated that he was suffering from some cause not apparent.
There were nine men left in the standing room, including the gentleman in black; they were coarse and rough-looking persons, and not one of them appeared to be the social peer of him who had condemned the firing upon the boat.

The skipper remained at the tiller of the boat, and he looked as though he might have negro blood in his veins, though he was not black, and probably was an octoroon.