You can report me to the Lord High Commissioner if you want, but I have three vessels here waiting on your convenience, and if you delay them much longer there'll be another report go in to the Lord High Commissioner.' "'I'll hold you responsible, Captain Munster,' says he to me, mad enough to eat scrap-iron.

'No, you won't,' says she; 'I'm the charterer of the _Emily_, and Captain Munster has acted under my orders.' "What could Burnett do?
He passed the whole hundred and fifty, though the _Emily_ was only licensed for forty, and the _Flibberty-Gibbet_ for thirty-five." "But I don't understand," Sheldon said.
"This is the way she worked it.

When the _Martha_ was floated, we had to beach her right away at the head of the bay, and whilst repairs were going on, a new rudder being made, sails bent, gear recovered from the niggers, and so forth, Miss Lackland borrows Sparrowhawk to run the _Flibberty_ along with Curtis, lends me Brahms to take Sparrowhawk's place, and starts both craft off recruiting.

My word, the niggers came easy.

It was virgin ground.