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by hard fare and ill treatment on the part of the 

 captain. The judge charged the jury that all 

 of the eight men were equally guilty of the death 

 of the two officers, but the jury, believing the story 

 of the ill treatment of the men, cleared four of 

 the accused, found three guilty of manslaughter, 

 and Plummer, as said, guilty of deliberate murder. 

 Plummer was sentenced to die, but when the facts 

 in his case were placed before President Buchanan, 

 the sentence was commuted to imprisonment 

 for life. Plummer died in prison. The three 

 convicted of manslaughter were in time released. 

 There is but one mutiny known to the annals 

 of the whalers in which there was no provocation, 

 and that was the one on the Globe, Captain Thomas 

 Worth, of Nantucket. The Globe sailed from 

 Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, for the Pacific 

 on December 15, 1822. She had been a lucky 

 ship; she was the first that ever brought in a cargo 

 of 2000 barrels of sperm oil. Rounding the Horn 

 in March, she reached Oahu in May, 1823, an( ^ 

 there the first symptom of trouble appeared in 

 the desertion of six men. The reader will re- 

 member the old missionary hymn that described 

 the Pacific islands as regions 



