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fend hiiTifelf with vigour ; and my uniform con- 

 dud: towards them, from the hour I firft embark- 

 ed, told them what they had to expedl fron> 

 xne. 



The former differences uhich had fubiTfled 

 Ibetween the military officers and me feemed 

 now buried in oblivion, being as it were ab- 

 forbed in our common misfortune ; my time, 

 however, was taken up in attending the Cap- 

 tain, who was very deiirous I fliould not leave 

 him; and who, after languilliing about forty- 

 eight hours, expired in my arms. As foon as 

 his body was committed to the deep, not wifh- 

 ing to affociate with Minchin, for reafons that 

 may be colleded from the foregoing narrative, 

 I left that cabin and returned to my own; but 

 the fame day, at the hour of dinner, I was fenc 

 for, and folicited by all, but particularly by 

 Enligns Minchin and Prater, not to leave them ; 

 I complied with their requeft, and we were no 

 more feparated. 



Some hours before our unfortunate Captain 

 was buried, the mutineers did the fame to 

 one of their comrades, named Delahay, who 

 was killed in the conflicfl, not, as was firft fup- 

 pofed, by Mr. Lambert, the Chief Mate, but 

 by an accidental Ihot from one of their own 

 party ; on this man's body they affixed the fol- 

 lowing infcription, " // ejl mort -pour la liberte.'* 



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