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Captain Wilcocks occupied the round-houfe, 

 the Chief Mate, Second Mate, and Purfer, were 

 in three fmall cabins in the fore-part of it ; in, 

 cabins between decks abaft, and in the (leerage 

 were the officers of the troops. Lieutenant 

 Drummond, of the Bombay Marines, (doing 

 duty as mate,) the petty officers of the fliip, the 

 feamen, a paflenger with his family, and my- 

 felf. • , 



It was the Chief Mate*s watch upon deck; him 

 Ihad already heard calling aloud that he was 

 murdered, and fall groaning at the feet of the 

 affaffins ; the Captain, whom the noife had 

 alarmed, and who had run upon deck, was im- 

 mediately mortally wounded, and in that ftate 

 threv/ himfelf down the hatchway, but retained 

 llrength enough to drag himfelf into Enfign 

 Minchin's cabin, and into his bed, which as he 

 afterwards told me he found empty, the Enlign 

 with his lady having already crept underneath 

 it. 



At the moment, when the Captain fell down 

 the hatchway, in front of the ladder, I was be- 

 hind it, at the cabin of Lieutenant Drummond, 

 the Surgeon and the Steward, endeavouring to 

 excite them to adlion, that we might not only 

 defend ourfelves, but raife force enough to re- 

 tain polTeffion of the fhip. I found the Steward's 

 cabin empty, he having abandoned it ; I then.' 



went 



