The other is to take things quiet, and just do what you are told, and no more.

Now, my advice is, on this here expedition you go on the last plan.

If you are ordered to land first, why land first it must be.

If you don't get orders to land first, just let them as is in a hurry land afore you.

I ain't been teaching all these lads to know something about the woods, for the last six months, jest to see them killed off like flies, because a blundering wrong-headed colonel sends them out with two hundred and fifty ploughmen, for the redskins to see and attack jest when they fancies." "Very well, Nat, I will take your advice, and, for once, we won't put ourselves in the front, unless we are ordered." Satisfied with this, Nat passed quietly round among the men, as they were taking their places in the boats, and told them that there was no occasion for them to row as if they were racing.
"I shall be in the captain's boat," he said.