Dappa gets an alert look about him as if it isn't funny at all, and points across half a mile of open water toward a schooner flying a black flag with a white hourglass. The schooner is on the weather bow * parallelling their course but obviously hoping to converge, and grapple, with Minerva in the near future. 'See how miserably they make headway? We are outpacing them, even though we haven't raised the mainsail.'