"I tell you that is all bosh," said Jerry.  "I don't believe that any man who had not gone through every scene he describes, could have given as good an account of them as does Robinson Crusoe; so I intend to stick to my belief, and not care what anybody else says on the subject."  I must own that I felt very much inclined to agree with Jerry, and to look on Defoe very much in the light of a pirate, who had got hold of a ship which did not belong to him.  The important discussion was cut short by the report of the first mate, who had again gone aloft with his glass to take another look at the object seen ahead.