Wait till the anchor's down before you get afraid.'" "That's what she said to me," Munster proclaimed.

"And of course it made me mad so that I didn't care what happened.

We tried to send a boat ashore for a pow-wow, but it was fired upon.

And every once and a while some nigger'd take a long shot at us out of the mangroves." "They was only a quarter of a mile off," Sparrowhawk explained, "and it was damned nasty.

'Don't shoot unless they try to board,' was Miss Lackland's orders; but the dirty niggers wouldn't board.