( This much, he doesn't care to disagree with, a hard if amused chuckle leaving his soured mouth. )

I think I would prefer no foreigner, foolhardy of otherwise, owed a burial on our ship.

( It creates all matters of great and forlorn liability, all sorts of proceedings, of writ and the spoken word, and processes that on land might seem equal to efficient task. But at sea, the matter of death is one of jurisdiction, of legal quandary and of enormous and stupefying pain in Master Briggs' derriere. )

I would remind you, lad, that you are a guest here, and as such should comport yourself with great docility and dignity.

( Now stay off his sail. )