And how he managed to preserve his dignity, as he did, among such a rabble rout was equally a mystery.

For he was no sailor; as ignorant of a ship, indeed, as a man from the sources of the Niger.

Yet the officers respected him; and the men were afraid of him.

This much was observable, however, that he faithfully discharged whatever special duties devolved upon him; and was so fortunate as never to render himself liable to a reprimand.
Doubtless, he took the same view of the thing that another of the crew did; and had early resolved, so to conduct himself as never to run the risk of the scourge.

And this it must have been--added to whatever incommunicable grief which might have been his--that made this Nord such a wandering recluse, even among our man-of-war mob.