"I'll be darned if yew will, though, stranger!" he snapped.  "No, sirree; not much, I don't think!  Why, yew're even more ignorant than I thought yew was, and I must teach ye another little bit of yewr business.  Why, yew goldarned Britisher, d'ye know that yew haven't got no right at all to stop me from pursooin' my v'yage, or to demand a sight o' my papers?  Supposin' I was to report this outrage to my Gover'ment, what d'ye suppose would happen?  Why, our men-o'-war would just up and sink every stinkin' Britisher that they comed across!"