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Updated: June 11, 2025
I watched the ocean lap over the edge of the fo'cas'le head, and rush down on to the maindeck, roaring into the empty fo'cas'le. And still all around me came crying of the lost sailor-men. I heard something strike the corner of the house above me, with a dull thud, and then I saw Plummer plunge down into the flood beneath. I remembered that he had been at the wheel.
The rest of the crowd sort o' bunched in one end of the room an' when you began addressin' the congregation, so to speak, on the habits, character, customs and breedin' of sailor-men in general an' the present company in particular, I see right there that you was a-bitin' off more 'n you could chaw.
Then again the timbers of this door do carry many marks of shot, and Adam Penfeather is no stranger to such, violence and danger, steel and bullet seem to follow him." "Why so, Martin? He hath ever seemed a man very quiet and gentle, most unlike such rough sailor-men as I have seen hitherto."
In the land of "El Dorado" the sands of the rivers can be coined into minted money. Would mine hostess who has so lavishly fed three poor sailor-men like to go to a banquet in the palace of "El Dorado"? Nothing simpler! 'tis done with a wave of Rob's brown hand. See! the table is gold; the platters are the same.
When he looked back now from his vantage-ground, the old world he had known, the world of land and sea and ships, of sailor-men and harpy-women, seemed a very small world; and yet it blended in with this new world and expanded. His mind made for unity, and he was surprised when at first he began to see points of contact between the two worlds.
If he'd been a proper sort of man, understandin' that he owed a dooty to the crew as well as to the owners of the ship, instead of encouraging you in your goin's-on agin us, he'd have took you o' one side, and he'd ha' said to you, `Look here, Thomson, my good feller, you mustn't be too hard upon them poor sailor-men for'ard; you knows as they don't muster a full-handed crew, and so it don't stand to reason as they can do so much as if they was full-handed; they're a decent enough willin' lot of men, and we mustn't axe too much from 'em.
Take them one way and another, they're a decent sort, good and bad like the rest of us. But there's a wheen daft folk that would set them up as models close to truth and reality, says you. It's sheer ignorance, for you're about as well acquaint with the working-man as with King Solomon. You say I make up fine stories about tinklers and sailor-men because I know nothing about them.
They're good sailor-men, all of 'em; but the fact is, sir, I don't like bein' shipmates with foreigners; I don't like their ways, and some of 'em has got very nasty tempers.
We boarded her, sad at heart that a craft so lovely should come to a pass like this; and 'twas at once plain to us sailor-men that 'twas a case of ugly abandonment, if not of barratry plain, indeed, to such as knew the man, that in conspiracy with the skipper Jagger had caused the wreck of the schooner, counting upon the isolation of the place, the lateness of the season, the simplicity of the folk, the awe in which they held him upon all this to conceal the crime: as often happens on our far-off coast.
"Not nay, not for all Bartlemy's treasure!" "Aha!" quoth he softly. "So you've heard tell of it then, along the Spanish Main?" "I heard tell of it last night in a cave from a sailor-man." "How?" says he starting and with keen eyes glancing hither and thither. "A sailor-man hereabouts?" "Damme!" says I, "the country seems thick o' sailor-men." "Ha! D'ye say so? And what like was this one?"
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