Queer sight, Lieutenant! I've seen a good many, but never worse than that.

I bolted to my cabin, tied my notes and gold round me, and out again." "Didn't desert the poor things ?" "Couldn't if I'd tried; they clung to me like a swarm of bees.

'Gad, sir, that was hard lines! to have all the pretty women one had waltzed with every evening through the Trades, and the little children one had been making playthings for, holding round one's knees, and screaming to the doctor to save them.

And how the -- -- was I to save them, sir ?" cried Tom, with a sudden burst of feeling, which, as in so many Englishmen, exploded in anger to avoid melting in tears.
"Ought to be a law against it, sir," growled the Lieutenant; "against women-folk and children going to sea.

It's murder and cruelty.