People were frightened at the time, but on looking back they rather liked it; it was a fine excitement in a quiet country life, and there was even a party of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a “true sea-dog” and a “real old salt” and such like names, and saying there was the sort of man that made England terrible at sea.

人们当时害怕，回想起来却颇觉有趣；这给平静的乡村生活添了难得的刺激。甚至有些年轻人装出崇拜他的样子，称他为“真正的老海狼”“地道的老水手”，说正是这样的人使英国在海上威名赫赫。