Our skipper was Scotch, and he put up some fight, but it wasn't any use.

There was only three of us left alive when the pirates came aboard.

One of these died two days later, and another was washed overboard and drowned down in the Gulf.
I am all that is left of the _Ranger_." "You saved your life by taking on ?" "Sanchez had the two of us, who were able to stand, back in his cabin.
He put it to us straight.

He said it was up to us whether we signed up, or walked the plank; and he didn't appear to care a damn which we chose.

The cold-blooded devil meant it too, for he was raging mad at getting only five hundred pounds off the brig.