He spoke loudly enough that all should hear, and he began with a rebuke.
"I am sorry that those of us who are left should have disgraced the fine record set up by the _Andromeda's_ crew since the ship struck," he said.

"Your messmates who fell fighting would hardly believe St.Peter himself if he told them that we were on the verge of open mutiny.

I am ashamed of you.

Let us have no more of that sort of thing.

Sink or swim, we must pull together." There was some discordant muttering, but he gained one outspoken adherent.
"Bully for you!" said the man who had suggested tree-climbing as an expedient.
"Shut up!" was the wrathful answer.