and the tugs come out , three in a neat vee , and they spin off and make fast to the bow to the stern and amidships starboard and the ship begins its surrender as the pilot sits up and pulls a radio from his belt and walks out on the bridge wing and calls to them to slow the ship and push its bow around , and the skipper gets up from his chair and goes out the hatch to him , and listens to the commands scrambled in spanish and all the sudden you know that there are spanish guys on the tugs and spanish guys on the pier waiting the catch the lines and spanish guys in town spanish kids and taxi drivers and office workers and housewives and teachers and fire men and policemen and women and then you look up and see that you are at least four orders behind and you look at the chart and figure out what they must have been and jot down your best guesses while the spanish people come closer and closer .