Oh, uncle! we were very wrong.

When he was here with us we should have taken him then; we should have shut him up; we should have sailed with him to Kingston." All this was very depressing to the soul of Kate's loving uncle, for how was he to sail after her father and take him and hold him and carry him away?
He went away to talk to the captain of the Belinda, but that tall seaman shook his head.

His vessel was not ready yet to sail, being much delayed by the flight of Bonnet.

And, moreover, he vowed that, although he was as bold a seaman as any, he would never consent to set out upon such an errand as the following of Blackbeard.

It was terrifying enough to be in the same bay with him, even though he were engaged in business with the pirate, for no one knew what strange freak might at any time suggest itself to the soul of that most bloody roisterer; but as to following him, it was like walking into an alligator's jaws.