But that's nothing to me.
I want no better man; and know that, whatever comes, I can rely upon Pengarvan to stand by me, and the ship, to the last." If the men were astonished at the thirty new hands who came on board on the previous evening, they were still more astonished when as many more embarked in the morning.

The newcomers were ordered to keep in the forecastle, and in the quarters under it, until the Swan was well away from land.
"There will be a good many eyes turned on the ship, as soon as we are seen to be shaking out our canvas," Reuben said; "and there is no need to set their tongues wagging, by showing more men on deck than we usually carry." The captain and Diggory Beggs talked late on into the night.

They went over all the ground again; and Reuben brought out the map of the islands, and showed where he intended to touch.
"I think not to do much trading there," he said.

"There is gold in Hispaniola and Cuba; but the captain I got the chart from said there was no very great store there, and that the natives had but little of it when the Spaniards first arrived; seeing that it took trouble and labor to obtain, and they are by nature altogether averse to hard work, and moreover place but little value on the gold.

But there were rumors among them that, farther west, there was a land where gold was in great plenty; and where there was a powerful people, dressed in gay attire, and wearing great bracelets and necklaces of gold.
"So far, the Spaniards have not found this land; though they have sailed down the coast a long way to the south, and northward as far as the point that Master Cabot reached, when he sailed down from Newfoundland; but due west they have never sailed far, and have found the sea ever stretching away in front of them; so that it is clear that either the great mainland is split in two at this point, or there is a vast bay.