Crossword-Solution: TOB 3 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The crew surged about in their battling, and, moreover, constantly offered themselves as a rampart before me by reason of Tob, the captain’s threats.

Tob, the captain, seeing my resolve to take hazards, deliberately thrust a shipman into the jaws of each of the others, so that they might be sated and get them gone.

Our navy has its orders to carry out, and the cause of my embassage is this: we wish to see if you will act the sensible part and give us what we want, and so be permitted to go on your way home, with a skin that is unslit and dry?” “You have come to the wrong bird here for a plucking,” said Tob with a heavy laugh.

Promptly Tob set going the machine on our own “Bear,” and bawled his orders right and left to the other ships.

But as their other ship-commanders one by one were killed, and Dason remained, active with mischief, “Dason!” became the shout which was thrown back at us in response to our “Tob!” However, I will not load my page with farther long account of this obscure sea-fight, whose only glory was its ferocity.