Quotation from: The Beasts of Tarzan

Written by: Edgar Rice Burroughs

"Shut up," admonished the sailor. "If you get funny I may change
my mind, and keep you here after all."

Now Paulvitch had no intention of permitting himself to fall into
the hands of Tarzan of the Apes if he could possibly avoid it,
and while the terrors of the jungle appalled him they were, to his
mind, infinitely preferable to the certain death which he knew he
merited and for which he might look at the hands of the ape-man.