He was once a junior naval officer, and left the navy and went into business; now he is a quotaman, and leads the mutiny.

Let me tell you that unless there's a good round answer to what we demand, the Nore fleet'll have it out with the government.

He's a man of character, is Richard Parker, and the fleet'll stand by him." "How long has he been at it ?" asked Dyck.
"Oh, weeks and weeks! It doesn't all come at once, the grip of the thing.

It began at Spithead, and it worked right there; and now it's workin' at the Nore, and it'll work and work until there isn't a ship and there isn't a man that won't be behind the Delegates.Look.Half the seamen on this ship have tasted the inside of a jail; and the rest come from the press-gang, and what's left are just the ragged ends of street corners.

But"-- and here the man drew himself up with a flush--"but there's none of us that wouldn't fight to the last gasp of breath for the navy that since the days of Elizabeth has sailed at the head of all the world.