13. Marching Orders

"Captain?!..."

"Yeah ma'te, I k'no... Z'it bad?"

"Bad?!? They're literally eating the ship from inside out! And what's more, I think they're smuggling weapons!..."

"V'eaponz?!?"

"They threw this out of their window..."

The first mate handed a black shaft to the captain. It looked like a projectile of some sort, resembling a spear's head. It was hard as steel, about 4 inches long and barely a quarter of an inch thick in diameter.

"Z'is muz be z'e most d'eadful mistake I've maide in mai life...", the captain gave a sigh of resignation as he studied the weapon.

"Sir, we just passed an island a couple of minutes ago, do you think we can... er... deposit them there?"

"Z'it!?! Z'it!?! Get z'e crew to prepare z'e lifeboat immediaztely!" The captain exclaimed with a glint in his working eye. "Or bettzer yet... Find z'e spare plank!"

A few sailors then emerged from the cabins, carrying some thick ropes, and moved quickly towards the cabins that housed the Hoos. Without a word, they proceeded tying the ropes around Ah-moe and Ah-mo while bringing the other Hoos out from the other cabin.

"Oei! 哪里可以这样? Ah-pui 救我leh..."

"Neh ni neh ni neh neh! Humph! 死Ah-moe... Pui! 不管你 er!你的错er! Karrr-Pui! Humph!"

"Oei! 不可以这样的hor! 死Ah-pui 你...Mmfff..."

And he was muffled by a piece of rag stuffed into his mouth. His ramblings were getting onto the nerves of the sailors.

"哈哈... Ah-moe 你笨er!... 我没有被...Mmfff.."

And Ah-mo was gagged too.

(Footnote: The sailors were not speaking English, but Romanian, as explained before. As again, we have translated their speech to their equivalent forms in English for your reading convenience.)