'You can't!' 'Tut, tut!' said the clerk.

'You gimme time.

Wot's the first point?
The first point is that we can't get ashore, and I'll make you a present of that for a 'ard one.

But 'ow about a flag of truce?
Would that do the trick, d'ye think?
or would Attwater simply blyze aw'y at us in the bloomin' boat like dawgs ?' 'No,' said Davis, 'I don't believe he would.' 'No more do I,' said Huish; 'I don't believe he would either; and I'm sure I 'ope he won't! So then you can call us ashore.

Next point is to get near the managin' direction.