326 letter from Chokahlock. -^ug- 2S. 



match the foundering and careening of Will Gas- 

 kin, or even honest Jack's running down the Cza- 

 rina's palace officer. 



Trtmmer^s log book, yune 6th 1791, second watch. 



Letter received from the boatswains-mate on 

 Ihore with siic hands on leave : — dated Cronstadt 

 guard house, ten o'clock A. M. wind at S. W. 

 with squalls. 



" May our fliip mifs stays on a lee fliore, if ever 

 I was so bambouzled and palavered with outlandifh 

 gibberifti since I went to sea, as in this plaguy Rufsian 

 bilbo, into which I have got, for the punilbment of 

 my own sins, and those of all the fhips crew, I ve- 

 rily believe. But I fliall give you a relation of the 

 action that brought me here. 



"Last night we had been taking a cann of grog 

 at the nexo sign of the hugging fox and bear, and 

 got about half seas over, when in came Catira the 

 boatswain, grinning like the fhips head, to pipe all 

 hands on board ; and we only wet his whistle be- 

 fore we got underway, and made right for the fhip ; 

 at least as streight as could be expected, consider- 

 ing that some of us rather made bad weather of 

 it, and rolled gunnel' ii^ as we went. 



Old Binacle the quarter master, kept conning us 

 all the way, with " steady as you go boys," and now 

 aiul then a " thus, thus, no nearer," when we were 

 rather steering wide, and brufhing the lamp posts 

 on either side ; however we were setting every 

 rag to get on board, and coming on chearily 

 IV. smiz of a little lec-way, wht^n as the devil 



