He can handle a boat, and the rest of you can't." "I don't know about that," interposed one of them.

"He upset the boat on the beach." "That was because the crew did not obey orders," replied Charles.
"He is second in command," replied Tim.

"Do you agree to that ?" "Yes," answered several, who were willing to follow the lead of the chief.
"Very well; I shall command one party and Charley the other; each in his own boat and on the island.

Now we will divide each party into two squads, or watches." "What for ?" asked Barney.
"To keep watch, and do any duty that may be wanted of them." Tim had got this idea of an organization from his piratical literature.
Indeed, the plan of encamping upon the island was an humble imitation of a party of buccaneers who had fortified one of the smallest of the islands in the West Indies.

The whole scheme was one of the natural consequences of reading bad books, in which the most dissolute, depraved, and wicked men are made to appear as heroes, whose lives and characters are worthy of emulation.
Such books fill boys' heads with absurd, not to say wicked ideas.