This reaction mounted upward from the bowels of the ship, from the quarters of the bunker hands to the messroom of the general staff; and for certain, if it hadn't been for Commander Farragut's characteristic stubbornness, the frigate would ultimately have put back to that cape in the south.
Az elégedetlenség a hajófenékről elharapózott egészen a törzskar ebédlőjéig, s ha Farragut parancsnok keményen meg nem makacsolja magát, a fregatt ismét délnek fordult volna.