[That would've certainly surprised the older pirate captain, and also given him lots of material to use against Norrington. Really, though, he'd think - what was the world coming to? The Admiral had somehow restrained himself from acting against his pirate nemesis all that time?]

Or perhaps it is so because he can't quite put a bounty on me head that is worth ten bloody thousand guineas 'ere now, can he? [Everything here was free and there was no real currency in Luceti - Barbossa knew that much, at least.]

Well, Jack, ye forget that ye are speaking to one of those "things". [If he was particularly impressed by this new piece of information, he didn't show it yet.]