"That's jolly."
"Easily done."
And then the sailor suggested bringing him aboard their ship and introducing him to the skipper.
Hunston listened and then shook his head.
"What," exclaimed the sailor, "won't do?"
"No."
"Why?"
"I'll tell you; a blessed outcry would be raised, and the skipper would be forced to give me up to be tried."
"Well, they would not dare to play false."
"Not while there was a British man-o'-war in the harbour; but nothing short of that would prevent the villains doing any thing they liked with me. They would go through the mockery of a trial with me, and I should be condemned to death beforehand."