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the cook to give them supper. They took to this kindly, and 

 after using it up fell to playing monkey-shines, and with singing, 

 dancing and shouting, kept themselves in good humor until late 

 in the evening, when they, one by one, dropped off, and turned 

 in. The next morning they were all drunk or sulky, and con- 

 tented themselves with refusing to come on deck when ordered. 



When the captain came on board and learned the state of 

 things, he took a hatchet, and with the officers and carpenter, 

 jumped into the forecastle, and with a general knocking down 

 and kicking out, got them all on deck. He then broke open their 

 chests and took from them six jugs of grog which they had con- 

 cealed, and threw them overboard. As they floated astern, a 

 Whitehall boatmen picked them up, and after securing the last, 

 took a drink and loudly wished us luck. 



Two or three of the most violent were sent on shore, (not 

 punished, but so rewarded,) and their places supplied by others. 

 The rest looked a little sour, and contrived to meet with a good 

 many accidents as long as the shore-boats kept about us ; but 

 when we were fairly getting clear of the land, and the wind 

 hauled a bit more aft, and the passengers began to wish she 

 would stop for just one moment, and there came a whirr-rushing 

 noise from under the bows the hearty yo-Jio heave-o-lioii with 

 which they roused out the stu'n-sails, was such as nobody the 

 least bit sulky could have begun to find voice for. 



A handsome Napoleonic performance it was of the captain's : 

 the more need that I should say that in my mind he disgraced 

 himself by it ; because, while we lay almost within hail of the 

 properly constituted officers of the law, and under the guns of a 

 United States fortress, such dashing violence was unnecessary 

 and lawless ; only at sea had he the right, or could he b*e justi- 

 fied in using it. 



I suppose that some such difficulties occur at the sailing of 



