Not much trade dere, sar.

The trade is done at Tortola, dat English island; and at Saint Thomas or Santa Cruz, dem Danish islands; all de oders do little trade." "Yes, Dominique, but I don't think that she wants to trade at all.
What she wants to do is to lie up quietly, where she would not be noticed." "Plenty of places in the islands for dat, sar." "Did they take a pilot here ?" Dominique shook his head.
"No, sar; several offers, but no take.

If want to hide, they no want pilot from here; they take up a fisherman among the islands, to show dem good place.

But plenty of places much better in San Domingo or Cuba.

Why dey stop Virgin Islands?
Little places, many got no water, no food, no noting but bare rock." "I think that they would go in there, because, as the hurricane season had begun when they got here, they would think it better to run into the port." "Hurricane not bad here, sar; bery bad down at what English call Leeward Islands.