We stepped on deck; the crew, we thought, eyed us with very sinister looks, but no one spoke to us till a man we took to be the captain stepped up to the gangway.  "Who are you, and where do you come from, who go about prying into other people's affairs?" he exclaimed in a gruff voice.  He stamped with his feet as lift spoke, as if lashing himself up into a rage.  He was a pale, long-faced man, with a large beard, and a very evil expression in his eye.