There'll be a mutiny, sir, if I go forward with that message of yours.

It will be prudent to let some of them go ashore now and others later in the day.

I will go in the first boat and see to it that the men come back with me.
And, by the way, it would not be a bad thing if I touch at Blackbeard's vessel and inform him that you are here; I don't suppose he knows the Revenge, nor her captain neither." "I doubt that, Bittern," said Bonnet, "I doubt it very much.

I assure you that I am known from one end of this coast to the other, and Captain Blackbeard is not an ignorant man.

So you can go ashore and take some of the men, stopping at Blackbeard's ship.