The latter, however, only waved his hand angrily; and two sailors, coming up, seized Terence by the arms and dragged him forward.

Ryan was called upon deck, and also ordered forward.

He too remonstrated, but was cut short by a threatening gesture from the captain.
For a time they preserved an appearance of deep dejection, Terence tugging his hair as if in utter despair, till Ryan whispered: "For heaven's sake, Terence, don't go on like that, or I shall break out in a shout of laughter." "It is monstrous, it is inhuman!" Terence exclaimed, in Portuguese.
"Thus to seize harmless fishermen, who have so narrowly escaped drowning; the sea is less cruel than these men.

They have taken our boat, too, our dear good boat.

What will our mothers think, when we do not return?
That we have been swallowed up by the sea.