“Some were afraid of Pew, others were afraid of Billy Bons, and I... he-he... I was afraid of Flint himself!
Who was so scary?

The only person Flint was afraid of was his roommate John Silver, who later even called his poppy Captain Flint.

John Silver was an apartment master. Flint was afraid of him. Unwise - John is an exceptional personality. What is the job of “apartment manager”? In the note to the Russian translation is written: "manager of food". What is not so at all.

In the original Silver was not an apartment master - he was a quartermaster, i.e. a master of some quarter.

On ships, and not only pirate ships, but English ships of the Renaissance in general, the master is the head of deck. A deck or deck is a horizontal surface covering at least two-thirds of the length of the ship. Each deck has a master. If there are guns on the deck, the master is an artillery, if it is the lowest deck, then a trumacher, I don’t know exactly how it sounded. By the way, it was the trumaker who was dealing with food, closer to him.

The only deck for the order on which the master was not responsible, it was the top deck, there was a bosman. This in no way infringed on the rights of the captain, who commanded the ship as a whole. Botzman provided only due performance by part of the team occupied on the bridge of his duties.

But there was another deck, often virtual, sometimes temporarily built – the quarter deck, named so because it did not exceed a quarter of the length of the ship. The quarterdecks included scans (a bridge or deck in the feed part of a sailing vessel, one level above the closet, where the captain was, in the absence of which - watchmen and guard officers, as well as compasses were installed there) and a temporarily built over the bridge, usually assembled before the attack and more often on combat or pirate (private case of combat) ships.

There, on the scans and quarter deck, there was an abortion team, the naval infantry of that era, a team of desperate heavens with a high probability of death in the attack. In short abortion battles, the team that acted as a unified body won, i.e. was assembled, prepared and organized by a skilled and strong leader - the master of quarterdecks, or quartermaster. Thus, John Silver was not involved in the manufacture of Flint's pie, but an ataman of the Marines.

Cooking is his type of hobby, remember the similar character of the professional amateur chef John Casey Reebeck in the performance of Steven Seagal (films Capture and others). and. Here everything immediately turns into place, Flint would be a fool if he wasn’t afraid of such a man. I think that any captain, unless he combined quartermaster’s duties with his foundation (Black Beard), was afraid of his ataman. Something had to be opposed. Flint opposed it. On the pirate ships only one person knew the navigation science, the captain. In the sea, the death of the captain meant the death of the crew, only this deterred Silver from attacking Flint. Interesting is the fact that when captured by the pirates, they could leave anyone's life, but a person with knowledge of assault and navigation had no chance of survival. Killed so that there was no temptation of rebellion and displacement of the captain.