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When a man like Ferens, on the one hand, and the mutineer whose fingers had been mutilated by Dyck in the Channel, on the other when these agreed to bend themselves to the rule of a usurper, some idea of Calhoun's power may be got. On this day, with the glimmer of land in the far distance, the charges of all the guns were renewed.
It is quite certain the ancient observers did not imagine anything of this sort. As I have said, Aratus tells us the celestial Centaur was placing an offering upon the altar, which was therefore upright, and Manilius describes the altar as Ferens thuris, stellis imitantibus, ignem,
"Make me purser," remarked Ferens. "Make me purser, and I'll do the job justly." The purser of a man-of-war was generally a friend of the captain, going with him from ship to ship. Of the common sailors, on the whole, Dyck had little doubt.
It was as though Ferens had stumbled and been badly hit in his fall, but there were no signs of permanent evil in his countenance. He was square-headed, close-cropped, clear-eyed, though his face was yellow where it was not red, and his tongue was soft in his head. Dyck read the paper slowly and carefully. Then he handed it back without a word. "Well, what have you got to say?" asked Ferens.
From the moment Dyck arrived on board the Ariadne he was a marked man. Ferens, a disfranchised solicitor, who knew his story, spread the unwholesome truth about him among the ship's people, and he received attentions at once offensive and flattering. The best-educated of the ship's hands approached him on the grievances with which the whole navy was stirring.
From the moment Dyck arrived on board the Ariadne he was a marked man. Ferens, a disfranchised solicitor, who knew his story, spread the unwholesome truth about him among the ship's people, and he received attentions at once offensive and flattering. The best-educated of the ship's hands approached him on the grievances with which the whole navy was stirring.
Dyck saw Ferens speak to Richard Parker after the men had been in conference with Parker and the Delegates, and then turn towards himself. Richard Parker came to him. "We are fellow countrymen," he said genially. "I know your history. We are out to make the navy better to get the men their rights. I understand you are with us?" Dyck bowed.
They were faces of intelligence, but one of them had the enlightened look of leadership. "By Judas, it's our leader, Richard Parker!" declared Ferens. What Dyck now saw was good evidence of the progress of the agitation. There were officers of the Ariadne to be seen, but they wisely took no notice of the breaches of regulation which followed the arrival of the Delegates.
Ferens, the former solicitor, first came to him with a list of proposals, which only repeated the demands made by the agitators at Spithead. "You're new among us," said Ferens to Dyck. "You don't quite know what we've been doing, I suppose. Some of us have been in the navy for two years, and some for ten.
And the principles of every man in the Nore fleet so far were embraced in the four words wages, food, drink, prize-money. Presently Ferens stopped short. "Listen!" he said. There was a cry from the ship's side not far away, and then came little bursts of cheering. "By Heaven, it's the Delegates comin' here!" he said.
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