I see Mr Jolliffe still keeps them up at the peak." "Yes, sir," replied Jack, rather puzzled what to call them, but at last he replied, "that it was the banner of equality and the rights of man." Captain Wilson frowned, and Jack, perceiving that he was displeased, then told him the whole story, whereupon Captain Wilson laughed, and Jack then also explained, in Spanish, to the officers of the corvette, who replied, "that it was not the first time, and would not be the last, that men had got into a scrape through a petticoat." The Spanish captain complimented Jack on his Spanish, which was really very good (for in two months, with nothing else in the world to do, he had made great progress), and asked him where he had learnt it.
Jack replied, "At the Zaffarine Islands." "Zaffarine Isles," replied the Spanish captain; "they are not inhabited." "Plenty of ground-sharks," replied Jack.

The Spanish captain thought our hero a very strange fellow, to fight under a green silk petticoat, and to take lessons in Spanish from the ground-sharks.

However, being quite as polite as Jack, he did not contradict him, but took a huge pinch of snuff, wishing from the bottom of his heart that the ground-sharks had taken Jack before he had hoisted that confounded green petticoat.
However, Jack was in high favour with the captain, and all the ship's company, with the exception of his four enemies--the master, Vigors, the boatswain, and the purser's steward.

As for Mr Vigors, he had come to his senses again, and had put his colt in his chest until Jack should take another cruise.

Little Gossett, at any insulting remark made by Vigors, pointed to the window of the berth and grinned; and the very recollection made Vigors turn pale, and awed him into silence.
In two days they arrived at Gibraltar--Mr Sawbridge rejoined the ship--so did Mr Jolliffe--they remained there a fortnight, during which Jack was permitted to be continually on shore--Mr Asper accompanied him, and Jack drew a heavy bill to prove to his father that he was still alive.