RECOVERING TILE SHIP. 325

 

   

“AS TO THE FIVE IN THE CAVE, T RESOLVRD TO KEEP THEM PAST.”

appeared as another person, and spoke of the governor, the garrison,
the castle, and the like, upon all occasions.

The captain now had no difficulty before him but to furnish his
two boats, stop the breach of one, and man them. Tle made his
passenger captain of one, with four other men; and himself, and
is mate and six more, went in the other. And they contrived
their business very well, for they came up to the ship about mid-
night. As soon as they came within call of the ship, he made
Robinson hail them, and tell them they had brought off the men
and the boat, but that it was a long time before they had found
them, and the like, holding them in a chat till they came to the
ship's side; when the captain and the mate, entering first with
their arms, immediately knocked down the second mate and car-
penter avith the butt-end of their muskets. Being very faithfully
seconded by their men, they secured all the rest that were upon
the main and quarter-decks, and began to fasten the hatches to
keep them down who were below, when the other boat and their
mien, entering at the fore-chains, secured the fore-castle of the ship,
and the scuttle which went down into the cook-room, making
three men they found there prisoners.