there was the paunch-bellied boatswain , dennel mcmurtry , graying beneath his black top-hat , with two gold teeth and tobacco stains over the rest ; half-blind rigger thorley colburn , a patch-eyed hulk of a man with a hook nose and silver rings through his ears , his clear blue eye shining through a curtain of blond hair ; eliza kinally , a redhead with wide hips and sharp green eyes , stout and plain ; and little neale glynton , the dark-haired cabin boy of no more than twelve , bug-eyed and scrawny as a starved cat .