202 THE LIFE OF 



Previous to the Captain's death he defired me 

 to cut oif fome of his hair, to fend to his wife ; 

 a tafk which I carefully performed. 



The direction of the fhip was now in the 

 hands of a few foreigners, and the knowledge 

 I had of their different languages often obliged 

 them to have recourfe to me as their interpre- 

 ter : thefe fervices enabled me to obtain from 

 them fome indulgence for my friends and my- 

 felf, by way of recompenfe. From the moment 

 we were taken we never ceafed to folicit the 

 mutineers to give us a boat, that we might land 

 at Rio de Janiero ; but this they refufed, from an 

 apprehenlion that fome Portuguefe fhips of 

 war might by laying there. As they had de- 

 clared their intention of making for the Rio de 

 Plafaj and landing at fome of the Spanifh fet- 

 tlements in that rivery they thought, that if we 

 reached our port foon, we might procure a 

 Portuguefe fliip of war to be fent after them, 

 which might reach the mouth of the Rio de Plata 

 before the Lady Shore, and thus intercept them. 

 On this account they pofitively refufed us a 

 boat, till we fhould be fo far to the fouthward 

 as to enable them to reach the Rio de Plata be- 

 fore we fliould be able, in all probability, to 

 reach the Rio Grande^ the fouthernmoft fettle- 

 rnent of the Brazils. 



Every individual who formed our table (^o^ 



licitcd 



