`` for i can not but agree with mr. hammond that we must present a respectable appearance , if we can , '' temeraire said defensively , when he had roared in a small way at a few of the sailors who had unwarily expressed objections to being put to this labor , `` and i am sorry to say it , but for that we can only rely on kulingile and iskierka and myself : there is no denying we have a very strange look , as a party , with all that curicuillor was kind enough to do for us in the article of clothing .