He was a pleasant-looking fellow with light-blue eyes, and yellowish moustache and beard.

He looked at them, and then gave orders to a soldier, who entered the building, and returned with two peasants' cloaks lined with sheep-skin, similar to the one he himself wore.
These were handed to them, and the midshipmen expressed their warmest gratitude to him; their meaning, if not their words, being clearly intelligible.
"These are splendid," Jack said.

"They've got hoods too, to go over the head.

This is something like comfort.

I wish our poor fellows up above there had each got one.