Reaction mounted from the
crew to the captain himself, and certainly, had it not been for the resolute determination on the part of Captain Farragut, the frigate would have headed due southward.
I have said it twice: That alone should encourage the
crew. Just the place for a Snark!
That protection could only consist in his own predominating brain and heart and hand, backed by a heedful, closely calculating attention to every minute atmospheric influence which it was possible for his
crew to be subjected to.
"We are fortunate," said the Gallant
Crew, "to have seen that in time.
With a loud-yelled command, he leaped to the slippery deck of the submersible, and at his heels came his hardy
crew. I sprang from the pilot-house and followed, not to be left out in the cold when it came to strafing the boches.
The ship proved to be a good ship, the
crew were capable seamen, and the captain thoroughly understood his business.
The beasts, liberated from the confinement of the hold, wandered about the deck, not a little to the discomfiture of the
crew in whose minds there remained a still vivid picture of the savagery of the beasts in conflict with those who had gone to their deaths beneath the fangs and talons which even now seemed itching for the soft flesh of further prey.
"What you're going for is to save life, not to drown your boat's
crew for nothing," he growled severely in my ear.
The following day Dantes presented Jacopo with an entirely new vessel, accompanying the gift by a donation of one hundred piastres, that he might provide himself with a suitable
crew and other requisites for his outfit, upon condition that he would go at once to Marseilles for the purpose of inquiring after an old man named Louis Dantes, residing in the Allees de Meillan, and also a young woman called Mercedes, an inhabitant of the Catalan village.
A fine ship was provided called the Tonquin, of two hundred and ninety tons burden, mounting ten guns, with a
crew of twenty men.
While the boat's
crew bent to the oars, he steered with the sweep between his arm and his side in order that he might hold Jerry with the other arm.
I used to indulge in lonely debauches, on nights when I knew my
crew was going to sleep ashore.