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little reply to me at that time, and I thought that affair had
been over. We were at this time in the road at Bengal; and
being willing to see the place, I went on shore with the super-
cargo in the ship’s boat to divert myself, and towards evening was
preparing to go on board, when one of the men came to me, and
told me he would not have me trouble myself to come down to the
boat, for they had orders not to carry me on board any more!
Any one may guess what a surprise I was in at so insolent a mes-
sage; and I asked the man who bade him deliver that errand to
me. He told me, the cockswain. I said no more to the fellow,
but bade him let them know he had delivered his message, and
that I had given him no answer to it.

I immediately went and found out the supercargo, and told him
the story ; adding what I presently foresaw, namely, that there
Would certainly be a mutiny in the ship, and entreated him to go
immediately on board the ship in an Indian boat, and acquaint the
captain of it. But I might have spared this intelligence, for
before I had spoken to him on shore the matter was effected on
board. The boatswain, the gunner, the carpenter, and, in a word,
all the inferior officers, as soon as I was gone off in the boat, came
up to the quarter-deck and desired to speak with the captain; and
there the boatswain, making a long harangue, for the fellow
talked very well, and repeating all he had said to me, told the
captain, in few words, that as I was now gone peaceably on shore,
they were loath to use any violence with me; which, if I had not
gone on shore, they would otherwise have done, to oblige me to
have gone: they therefore thought fit to tell him, that as they
shipped themselves to serve in the ship under his command, they
would perform it well and faithfully ; but if I would not quit the
ship, or the captain oblige me to quit it, they would all leave the
ship, and sail no further with him. And at that word “all,” he
turned his face about towards the mainmast, which was, it seems,
the signal agreed on between them; at which, all the seamen
being got together, they cried out, ‘‘ One and all! one and all!”

My nephew the captain was a man of spirit, and of great
presence of mind; and though he was surprised, you may be sure,
at the thing, yet he told them calmly that he would consider of