[James has found one can often be rude without being crass at all, if one is clever. And Westley seems to have cleverness in abundance.

Clever, confident pirates. Is there a worse kind?]

Made tolerable. [He gives a dark chuckle.] Then here's the short of it, sir. The turtle on whom we depend for sustenance is sickened and dying, a state for which the Kedan have largely chosen to blame the recent transplants.

[More or less. Look, if he wants the details he can speak to a historian.]