"Master Wentworth, I have been fully satisfied with your conduct in the fight, and although you are young in years you have a man’s head on your shoulders.  You will now have your first command, for I propose to put you in charge of the prize with seven men to work her. You must keep in company with the _Gannet_ till off the Barbary coast, where you will have to shape a course for Tangier, which now belongs to His Majesty King Charles.  Should we be compelled to part company, I will rely on you to work the ship into that port.  You can, of course, use a sextant?"