But I am rather fond of johnny-cake, and I don't expect to starve on bacon." "Don't you think it was a mistake to send us ashore in the canoe on the part of Mr.Blowitt ?" asked Flint, rather timidly.
"If it was, it was as much my mistake as it was his.

But I don't think it was a mistake.

I cannot say that we did not succeed in the action on the deck of the steamer because we were sent ashore," replied Christy.
"I don't see how that can be," replied Flint.
"In the first place, Lonley wanted me to come on shore, and asked that I should do so.

On the strength of what I said to him, he believed that our boats had been sent to the eastward, and that induced him to make the advance he did.

After he had told us where to find the men, he had good reason to believe that the boats would be sent for them.