They all seemed to take their cue from the captain, who was a drunken, blaspheming, and cruel vagabond.
This man from the first took a savage hatred to Eric, partly because he was annoyed with Davey for bringing him on board.

The first words he addressed to him were-- "I say, you young lubber, you must pay your footing." "I've got nothing to pay with.

I brought no money with me." "Well, then, you shall give us your gran' clothes.

Them things isn't fit for a cabin-boy." Eric saw no remedy, and making a virtue of necessity, exchanged his good cloth suit for a rough sailor's shirt and trowsers, not over clean, which the captain gave him.

His own clothes were at once appropriated by that functionary, who carried them into his cabin.