"We shall be careful, captain," said the latter.
"Of course," said Deering, with a merry twinkling in his eye; "you always are."
"Always."
"There's not much to fear, captain," said Jack, lightly.
"Oh, yes, there is," responded Deering, quickly, "very much."
"How?"
"Why, very little will provoke a Mussulman when he has to deal with a Christian."
"But no one would be indelicate enough to show a want of respect to their religious scruples," answered Harry.
"I don't see how we can interfere with them at all," said Jack. "Why should the question of religion be raised?"
"Not by you," returned Captain Deering, "but by them, for they will at any time unite to fall upon an unlucky Christian if opposed to a Mussulman in a dispute, should the Turk choose to invoke their aid against the unbelievers, as they stigmatise the Christians."