The strange thing was, he said, how they would scream every night at midnight. I don't know why they screamed at that time. We were at the port and they were all gathered on the pier and at midnight they would start screaming. We usually pointed the spotlight at them to make them stop. This trick always worked. We would move the spotlight up and down, shining its light on them two or three times, and they would stop. Once, I was the officer on duty at the pier and a Turkish officer approached me, furious, because one of our sailors had insulted him very badly. I then told him that the sailor was going to be sent back to the ship and severely punished. I asked him to show me who it was. He then pointed out the gunner's mate, the most harmless kid. He said that he had repeatedly spoken to him rudely and insultingly, speaking to me through an interpreter. I couldn't understand