"Our noble admiral fears that if you do not that you may be captured by some of these good vessels lying hereabout." Clip roared out with a laugh: "I will attend to the capture as soon as I get out of reach of his guns, which he will not dare to use here, I take it.

But I want you to know and him to know that we're not goin' to stay on board and in sight of the town.

If you go ashore, so go we." "Stay where ye are till orders come to ye," shouted Black Paul, "if ye want to keep the cat off your backs!" And as he rowed away the men on the bark gave him a cheer and proceeded to lower two boats.
From nearly every pirate ship in the anchorage the proceedings of the newly arrived vessels had been watched.

No one wanted to board them or in any way to interfere with them until it was found out what they intended to do.

The Revenge was a stranger in that harbour, although her fame was known on not a few pirate decks; but if she came to Belize to fraternize with the other pirate vessels there gathered together, why didn't she do it?
No idea of importance and dignity, which his position imposed upon Captain Stede Bonnet, entered their piratical minds.