I was going to find a way to tour the top of the wall. It might take a little money, but I was sure it would be possible.The morning of my fourth day ...here, I got up early. I ate some left over venison and bread for breakfast, and went out dressed for travel. The walk to the gate was about ten minutes from where I was staying. I went out, waving at the guards as I went.I turned to my right, and started walking parallel to the wall in the direction of the river. I came to an area that explained. I don’t mean to pressure you. I’m just a little worked up, I guess. I’ll leave you alone.’ I quickly typed out a response. ‘Hey, maybe that sounded harsher than I meant it. I wasn’t trying to get rid of you. I’m just having a hard time dealing with what happened.’ Matt responded that he, too, was conflicted about what we were doing. But he said he had always been a very cautious person, unwilling to take risks or try new things, and as a result had led a fairly dull life. Now he had a chance. Too much blackness didn’t rub off too well on his father, and the old man made sure to keep his family away from the roguish nigger element that haunted his mind. Claude felt the opposite. Call it a generation gap.‘What’s so wrong with being black?’ he used to ask himself while in his bedroom at night, his parents in silence down the hall. And then he questioned it—’should anyone want to become black?’ From what he knew about the South and a black man’s fight for equality, the word ‘nigger’. That was a trivial thing because the pirates could easily get a pass key, but we wanted to annoy them as much as possible.We had changed clothes to sturdy pants, shirts, and deck shoes. Now, we were ready for action! The first thing we wanted was to relieve one or more of the pirates of their AK-47s. The belaying pins were great when we had the advantage, but it was obvious that we were going to need the guns in order to overcome the pirates completely.We figured that most of the pirates would.