13/27 The only place I've put foot ashore has been Porto Grande, where we run in to refit. That's a worse hell than the ship itself." "But Haines goes ashore; he was with Manuel's boat yesterday." The big fellow laughed grimly. He's a boatswain, an' gets a big share of the swag. He's the only Britisher aboard who wouldn't cut and run in a minute; besides he's got a girl at Porto Grande." "And that fellow Anderson who was with Estada ?" "The lowest kind of a Swede cur--he'll do more dirt than a Portugee. I know what yer thinkin' 'bout. |