Even among the officers, he detected signs of disloyalty. The head of the marines, Pemberton, had lost, in Cheap’s words, “all sense of honour or the interest of his country.” The wishy-washy Lieutenant Baynes appeared to shift allegiances with the latest breeze, and the boatswain, King, incited so many quarrels that his own companions had booted him from their shelter. Then there was John Bulkeley, the seeming worm in the apple. Cheap had probed him regarding his loyalties, and Bulkeley had assured him that he and “the people”—there was that phrase again—“never would engage in any mutiny
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