I tell you, Ben Greenway, I'll make an example of this one.
I am a pirate, and I will let them know it--these fellows in their floating shops.

It will be a fair and easy thing to sink this tub without more ado.

I'd rather meet three Spanish ships, even had they naught aboard, than one of these righteous craft commanded by my most respectable friends and neighbours." Black Paul, the sailing-master, had approached and had heard the greater part of these remarks.
"Better board her and see what she carries," said he, "before we sink her.

The men have been talking about her and, many of them, favour not the trouble of marooning those on board of her.

So, say most of us, let's get what we can from her, and then quickly rid ourselves of her one way or another." "'Tis well!" cried Bonnet, "we can riddle her hull and sink her." "Wi' the neebours on board ?" asked Greenway.
Captain Bonnet scowled blackly.
"Ben Greenway," he shouted, "it would serve you right if I tied you hand and foot and bundled you on board that brig, after we have stripped her, if haply she have anything on board we care for." "An' then sink her ?" asked the Scotchman.
"Ay, sink her!" replied Bonnet.