Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


In my watch are the steward, Buckwheat, Wada, and the other two
topaz-eyed ones. And to one of them Wada is told off; and to the
other is assigned the steward. We are not taking any chances.
Always, night and day, on duty or off, these storm-strangers will
have one of our proved men watching them.



Yes; and I tried the stranger men out last evening. It was after a
council with Margaret. She was sure, and I agreed with her, that the
men for'ard are not blindly yielding to our bringing them in to be
prisoners in Valparaiso. As we tried to forecast it, their plan is
to desert the Elsinore in the boats as soon as we fetch up with the
land. Also, considering some of the bitter lunatic spirits for'ard,
there would be a large chance of their drilling the Elsinore's steel
sides and scuttling her ere they took to the boats. For scuttling a
ship is surely as ancient a practice as mutiny on the high seas.

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