The most perfect order reigned on board the "Pilgrim." It might then be hoped that all would go well.
On his side, Negoro made no other attempt to resist Dick Sand's authority.

He appeared to have tacitly recognized him.

Occupied as usual in his narrow kitchen, he was not seen more than before.

Besides, at the least infraction--at the first symptom of insubordination, Dick Sand was determined to send him to the hold for the rest of the passage.

At a sign from him, Hercules would take the head cook by the skin of the neck; that would not have taken long.