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'chin r'efufes to a5l. — l^he Captain mortally 'wound- 

 ed. — Tlye author endeavours to perfnade the officers 

 of the troops to rally ^ but in vain. — He offers a 

 variety of pr amicable plans y but without effect. — 

 At the injiance of the Captain and Minchin^ the 

 author enters into a treaty with the mutineers. — 

 Minchin makes hisfubmiffwn; and thefljip is given 

 up. — The officers vsho hid themfelves; brought to 

 light. — The Captain's death. — The author wiJJjes 

 to leave the mefsy but at the foli citation of the offi- 

 eerSy continues with them. — The officers e?ideavour 

 to procure a boat from the mutineers to carry them 

 to Rio Grande. — The author's fir at agem to procure 

 leave for himfelf and the Purfer to go in the 

 ioati, 



W E proceeded oil dur voyage without any 

 ^vent worth remarking, till we were very near 

 Rio de Janeiro i in the Brazils. On the ift of 

 Auguft 1797, about four o'clock in the morn- 

 ing, I was awaked by the report of fire-arms 

 and the fcreams of women. I immediately 

 hafted from my bed toward the hatchway, which 

 I found flrongly guarded, and near it I met 

 John Curran, a faijor, who had juft efcaped 

 from the fcene of bloodihed, then pafling upon 

 deck; he told me that the foldiers had taken the 

 fliip, and that if I went near the hatchway, I 

 Ibould be murdered by the mutineers. 



O Captain 



