312 A COUNCIL OF WAR.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“7 CARRIED HIM AND HIS TWO MEN INTO MY APARTMENT.”

occasion, and I would show him that too another time, but at
present our business was to consider how to recover the ship.
He agreed with me as to that, but told me he was perfectly at
a loss what measures to take; for that there were still six-and-
twenty hands on board, who, having entered into a cursed con-
spiracy, by which they had all forfeited their lives to the law,
would be hardened in it now by desperation, and would carry it
on, knowing that if they were reduced they should be brought to
the gallows as soon as they came to England, or to any of the.