If the master-at-arms is standing there "only some exceptional cause would, according to established custom, have warranted that" (18.3). Claggart stands in the place usually marked out for inferior men who want to have a word with the captain.Vere's a bit disappointed, pacing up and down the deck, when John Claggart approaches to see him.
While the Bellipotent was out on one such mission, they spot a frigate (type of ship) of the enemy.In addition to the qualities naturally to be expected in a commander, he had knowledge and ability. Well, the Bellipotent was also occasionally sent out on more important service because the higher-ups knew that Captain Vere was an excellent seaman.The Bellipotent 74, it was earlier mentioned, was sometimes dispatched as a scout instead of just being another part of the English fleet.For a while, nothing happens and all seems to be cool.With no perceptible trace of the vainglorious about him, rather with the off-hand unaffectedness of natural regality, he seemed to accept the spontaneous homage of his shipmate. That signal object was the “Handsome Sailor” of the less prosaic time alike of the military and merchant navies. In certain instances they would flank, or, like a body-guard quite surround some superior figure of their own class, moving along with them like Aldebaran among the lesser lights of his constellation. IN THE time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable sea-port would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-of-war's men or merchant-sailors in holiday attire ashore on liberty.
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