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Updated: May 29, 2025
"Well, now, d'ye know, John Adams, alias Smith, mutineer, as ought to have bin hung but wasn't, an' as nobody would have the heart to hang now, even if they had the chance, this here adventur is out o' sight one o' the most extraor'nar circumstances as ever did happen to me since I was the length of a marlinspike."
"Who are you?" asked the astonished captain, gazing at this strange and unexpected apparition. "I am Thursday October Christian, the son of the mutineer, and there," pointing to the other canoe, now close to the ship, "is Edward Young." The mystery was now explained: the ships had anchored at the island where the mutineers, long sought in vain, had taken refuge.
Finding force unavailing, the mutineer had recourse to other means. He proposed a treaty of peace, the chaplain, who remained with Weybehays, drawing up the conditions.
"It will only last about ten minutes," shouted Frewen to Ryan as they, with Raymond and Maliê, took shelter in the companion-way. "Where are all those men of yours?" asked the mutineer somewhat anxiously. Frewen's answer reassured him. "All bolted for shelter," he said with a laugh, "without even waiting to get their grog. I hope your men will let them crawl in somewhere."
Precedent the decision of the courts has decided the privilege of a captain or officer to punish insolence or lack of respect from a sailor with a blow of a fist or missile; but, understand me now, a return of the blow makes that man a mutineer, and his prompt killing is justified by the law of the land. Is this plain to you?
I must warn thee, however, that unless thou choose to be considered a mutineer or a rebel, never again take upon thyself the ordering of such a matter when under command of a superior officer." Réné hung his head at this mild rebuke, and promised his uncle that his future actions should be entirely guided by him, so long as they sustained each other the relations they now bore.
Yet when it comes to torturing the opposite sex in its feelings, they are brutes compared with their sufferers. "Do you know," said Leonore, "that this is almost our last ride together?" "Don't jerk the reins needlessly, Peter," said Mutineer, crossly. "I hope not," said Peter. "We have changed our plans.
The brawny mutineer set her on his knee, and, in a voice harshened by thirty years' service before the mast, asked her deferentially if she fancied a glass of syrup? "No, thank you," said Daisy politely; and then, addressing everybody in general, "papa and mamma's gone to Tarawa!" "Now, if that ain't too bad!" put in Bob sympathetically.
Well indeed might he and we feel despair at this last extinguisher of our hopes. With no landmark to steer by, with wind and sea dead in our teeth, with the waves breaking in over our sides, and one useless mutineer in our midst, we felt that our fate was fairly sealed. Even Hall for a moment showed signs of alarm, and we heard him mutter to himself, "God help us now!"
The Hulans tossed their lances; and it had nearly been a business of cold steel, when their officer rode up, to demand the sword of the presumptuous mutineer who had thus daringly questioned his right to starve us.
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