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Goaded on by Sir Walter, and with the Queen promising to marry him if he succeeds, Blackadder vows to sail around the Cape of Good Hope, a journey so dangerous that it spells almost certain death.

Things start badly when it becomes clear that Redbeard Rum, their captain, is so barking mad that he can't even find France. After two years, and much consumption of Baldrick's urine, they return home in triumph only to discover that the Queen has completely gone off sailors.

				Blackadder: Bloody explorers, ponce off to Mumbo Jumbo land, come home with a tropical disease, a suntan and a bag of brown lumpy things, and Bob's your uncle, everyone's got a picture of them in lavatory.
				Queenie: Oh, Edmund: then this is it. Have you got clean underwear, and don't eat foreign food and watch out for strange men and discover me a country and bring me back a vegetable and… oh, everything.
				Percy: Don't be ridiculous, Baldrick. You know me. I mean, I laugh in the face of fear and tweak the nose of the dreadful spindly killer fish.

				Queenie's attempt at poetry isn't quite in the same league as the Bard's. Here it is in full: Edmund When the night is dark, And the dogs go 'bark', When the clouds are black, And the ducks go 'quack', When the sky is blue, And the cows go 'moo', Think of lovely Queenie: She'll be thinking of you.

				Test Your Cunning Try the Blackadder series two quiz.

			Baldrick: Stranger things have happened. Blackadder: Well, exactly. Baldrick: That horse becoming Pope. Blackadder: For one.
			Blackadder: Better a lap-dog to a slip of a girl than a ... git!

				Sir Francis and Sir Walter had Discovered New Worlds and new nations. And though Blackadder thought them mad, He tried his hand at navigation. Blackadder, Blackadder, He saw the oceans foam. Blackadder, Blackadder, He should have stayed at home. Blackadder, Blackadder, He heard the New World call. Blackadder, Blackadder, Discovered bugger all!