"You have put the bark about—haven't you?"
"We have."
"The men who are working with you are a set of miserable, drunken vagabonds. You can't take the bark into port with them. They will find where the liquor is, and then the vessel will be wrecked, and all hands lost."
"I would rather take my chances with them than with you. Anything but being a pirate."
"There is no pirate about it; we haven't taken any negroes on board yet, and the worst that can be made of it is fitting out a slaver. I don't want to take any men down to the coast of Africa who don't want to go there."
"Yes, you do."
"No; if you will hear me, you shall make a good thing out of this cruise, and not see a single negro."
"I won't trust you, and you are wasting your breath."
"You know very well that the crew will keep drunk all the time as soon as they find the liquor. Old Sanderson is the best man on board, but he will drink all day long."
"I will trust him, drunk or sober, farther than I would you."