Character: Israel Hands
For thirty years I have sailed the seas. I saw both good and bad, but I never saw that virtue would bring a person at least some benefit.
Our Ham is not a simple man, In his youth he was a scholar and, if they wish, can talk like a book. And how brave he is! Lion nothing, before our Lanky John. I saw him, unarmed, attacked the four, and he grabbed them and banged heads here.
Yeah, flint was a master at these things. Heh! "The dead don't bite." he used to say.
