`` well , we are glad enough to find you , '' willoughby said - nesbit willoughby , captain of the nereide , having supplanted corbet in that position after , he said , the successful taking of reunion , which had been undertaken , under commodore rowley , to secure a port in place of the lost capetown ; but laurence could not take any great comfort in the substitution : willoughby had himself been charged with cruelty before a court-martial , in his previous command , and the ship did not have a happy air ; there was a lowering stiffness everywhere , and caesar was looked upon with a wariness more intimate than mere reflexive anxiety : these were men who feared punishment , and feared it might grow worse .