Day 4 - Mutiny Foiled

We began the day being buffeted by journalistic currents and with every tack the hands, still looking over their shoulders in fear of the press gang, asked how different things might have been with Captain Flint. But by tea time Captain Smollett had taken back control and Silver and his motley henchmen, so vociferous in their criticism of the Captain, now skulked on the quarterdeck with their tails between their legs (leg in Silver’s case). Silver had been about to breakout with a rallying cry, “now boys, who’s for a run ashore?” But Smollett, Doctor Livesey and Mr Trelawney the two lieutenants,  had put paid to that. The Admiral Benbow Inn had shut it’s doors for the duration so the Hispaniola was sailing on.  The safety of land was a long way off and the crew had better get used to it.