 Walker intended to rely principally on a Frenchman he had picked up in Plymouth prior to the fleet's departure.Samuel Vetch, however, deeply distrusted the Frenchman, writing that he was "not only an ignorant, pretending, idle, drunken Fellow", but that he "is come upon no good Design".Following this report, Walker also forced a Captain Jean Paradis, the captain of a captured French sloop, to serve as navigator.