With Ferens, Michael Clones, and two others whom Ferens could trust, a plan was arranged which Dyck explained to his fellow-seamen on the Ariadne.
"We've come to the parting of the ways, brothers," he said.

"We've all become liable to death for mutiny.

The pardon offered by the King has been refused, and fresh demands are made.

There, I think, a real wrong has been done by our people.

The Ariadne is well supplied with food and water.