In the continual working of the ship I am answerable for all that goes amiss.

The life of a boatswain is a life of 'mergency, and therefore I swear." "I still cannot allow it to be requisite, and certainly it is sinful." "Excuse me, my dear sir; it is absolutely requisite, and not at all sinful.

There is one language for the pulpit, and another for on board ship, and, in either situation, a man must make use of those terms most likely to produce the necessary effect upon his listeners.

Whether it is from long custom of the service, or from the indifference of a sailor to all common things and language (I can't exactly explain myself, Mr Simple, but I know what I mean), perhaps constant excitement may do, and therefore he requires more 'stimilis,' as they call it, to make him move.

Certain it is, that common parlancy won't do with a common seaman.
It is not here as in the scriptures, 'Do this, and he doeth it' (by the bye, that chap must have had his soldiers in tight order); but it is, 'Do this, d--n your eyes,' and then it is done directly.