So we've got to see that her, record is kept clean as a mutineer." At that moment the master appeared.

He saluted.

"Greenock," said Dyck, "I wonder if you've noticed the wind blowing chilly from the midshipmen's berth." A lurking devilish humour shot from Greenock's eyes.
"Aye, I've smelled that wind." "Greenock, we're near the West Indian Islands.

Before we eat many meals we'll see land.

We may pass French ships, and we may have to fight.
Well, we've had a good running, master; so I'll tell you what I mean to do." He then briefly repeated what he had said to Michael, and added "Greenock, in this last to-do, I shall be the only man in danger.