"Very possibly; but we should have to chance that."  He did not say any more, but sat there scanning the far-spreading sea, dotted with the sails of fishing-boats and small junks.  But he had given me plenty to think about, for I was growing learned now in the risks of the warfare we were carrying on, and I could not help wondering what effect it would have upon the men's appetites if they were told of the perilous enterprise in which they would probably be called upon to engage that night.