[There have been other strange things Barbossa had been exposed to before, so hearing about him supposedly being transported to a whole different world didn't take him aback as much as it could've otherwise - though it didn't ease his irritation.

Well, that may have answered another one of his earlier questions - Belle could as well have come from another world herself.]

A village, ye say? Are we close to it?

[As for the Malnosso... even if he were to ask, this woman already said that nobody knew their reasons for taking people. So she was as clueless as to why he was taken from his ship and crew as he was. He proceeded to nod in response to her bringing up the journal.]

Aye, this was lyin' next to me when I woke up in this damned forest. I was not exactly in the mood for readin' this much material at the time, ye see.

[Though it sounded like he would have to to understand what was going on better.]

What would be preferable, miss Belle, is if I find me old clothes and hat. [And ship.] Did those... Malnosso ye speak of take them as well?

[He already spoke the name of their captors with a certain distaste, and if he learned that they had stolen his favorite attire from him, he would like them even less - and it would show.]