The Mutineers and Slavers 349 



From the day the Globe left Oahu to go cruising, 

 the new recruits were lazy and insolent. To make 

 them work well was impossible. In spite of, or 

 perhaps because of, the character of these men, a 

 boat steerer, named Samuel B. Comstock, became 

 very friendly with them, and especially with 

 Payne. Comstock, after the usual fashion, lived 

 in the cabin, where he had been well treated ; the 

 third mate, Nathaniel Fisher, had been too kind 

 to him. For Comstock had challenged Fisher 

 to a wrestling match at a time when men from 

 another ship were visiting on board, and after 

 Fisher had proved himself the better wrestler, 

 Comstock struck him. For this Fisher threw 

 him to the deck and held him until the appearance 

 of anger passed away, and then let the matter 

 drop. 



In time the tales told by the beach-combers 

 about their life among the savages led Comstock 

 and some of the other members of the original 

 crew into a conspiracy to kill the officers, and then 

 sail to the Malgraves and there abandon them- 

 selves to such joys as they might find. 



Accordingly, on the night of January 25, 1824, 



