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Updated: April 30, 2025
I should say first thing is for you to rig yourself out with a revolver and a gun as I've got waiting for you ready, and, as it used to be when I was aboard a man-o'-war, you just read your commission out loud to the crew. They won't understand it, but that don't matter; we Jacks never did.
Seeing how the Britishers, every year, pay over a million pounds sterling for keeping open the fishing question, driving the fish out of the water with big man-o'-war ships and steamships, and making a deal of pleasant fun for a great many fine gentlemen who threaten to swallow a fisherman for taking a fish; and that the United States pay about one-fifth as much for the privilege of sending some of their big ships to help the Britishers play the genteel, while hoping that stupid diplomacy will long continue to give them the same Opportunity, Split and Pluck reckoned how they'd come a point over the Britishers.
Dolly and I are off directly to the backwaters of the river, where the new boat is launched with due ceremony as the Conqueror, his Majesty's latest ship-of-the-line. Jonas himself trims her sails, and she sets off right gallantly across the shallows, heeling to the breeze for all the world like a real man-o'-war.
In the same house with him were a Frenchman and an Englishman, the latter a regular-built ``man-o'-war Jack, a thorough seaman, a hearty, generous fellow, and, at the same time, a drunken, dissolute dog. He made it a point to get drunk every time he went to the presidio, when he always managed to sleep on the road, and have his money stolen from him.
Then, as if inspired with a sudden suspicion, he asked: "Have you seen any men-o'-war in here lately?" I could see by the knowing look in our Yankee friend's eyes that he read poor Smellie like a book. "Wall," he replied. "Come to speak of it, there was a brig in here a few days ago that looked like a man-o'-war.
"Pacheco," said Fernandez, "this young gentleman is Senor Delamere, the officer who commanded the small British man-o'-war schooner that lately attacked the Tiburon.
During the engagement of Cabañas the orders were issued as quietly as at any other time, and the men went about their work as steadily as bluejackets on a man-o'-war.
For no ordinary trader would be lying hove-to, just where she was; the inference therefore was indisputable that, if not a man-o'-war, she must be lurking just off the entrance of the Windward Passage for some unlawful purpose.
Even Paul began to show signs of restlessness. He finally made a megaphone of his hands, and called to Bobolink: "Tell Jack to step up; I'd like to ask him a question or two." "Ay, ay, sir," replied the other, touching his forelock in true man-o'-war style, and immediately the head of Jack appeared. "What's the good word, Jack?" asked the Commodore of the expedition.
They are really very amusing, and if you listen carefully, you can hear what they say." So Trot and Cap'n Bill listened, and this is what the barnacles sang: "We went to topsy-turvy land to see a man-o'-war, And we were much attached to it, because we simply were; We found an anchor-ite within the mud upon the lea For the ghost of Jonah's whale he ran away and went to sea. Oh, it was awful!
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