"Then pray what was it ?" I told him all that Ching had said, and the captain nodded his head again and again as I went on.
"Yes," he said at last, "I'm afraid he is right, Reardon.

It is worth thinking about.

What do you say to my sending you and Mr Brooke in a couple of junks ?" They walked off together, and we heard no more.
"Oh, how I should like to punch old Dishy's head!" said Barkins between his teeth.
"Don't take any notice," said Smith; "it's only because he can't get a chance to sink a pirate.

I don't believe there's one anywhere about the blessed coast." "Sail ho!" cried the man at the mast-head, and all was excitement on the instant, for after all the strange sail might prove to be a pirate.
"Away on the weather bow, sir, under the land!" cried the man in answer to hails from the deck; and then, before glasses could be adjusted and brought to bear, he shouted-- "She's ashore, sir--a barque--fore--topmast gone, and--she's afire." The _Teaser's_ course was altered directly, and, helped by a favouring breeze, we ran down rapidly towards the wreck, which proved to be sending up a thin column of smoke, and soon after this was visible from the deck..