It had proven elucidating. He had learned that the captain had accepted payment for quartering the troops. He also learned something had happened up north in the Kingdom of the Hebrides in Griffonia that had delayed the ship in the first place. Such was gleaned while he listened in on a trio of crewmen playing a strange board game with pegs, just visible through the slightly ajar doorway to their cabin. Nothing more substantial than that was heard, unfortunately. The conversation soon turned to matters of payment, women, and what they planned to do when the ship arrived at port for the winter. Handy moved on.