[The journal is trying to render him deaf, must be the next wave. He hopes she's not Maribelle Jr. tossing words like commoner around.]

You'll make a fine sailor Miss, you seem to already be able to curse like one.
[He understood all of that.]

Plenty of people around here would like have it out with Jones. [Attacked by rabid penguins and an antarctic sunburn is a new creative way though, he's writing that one down.]