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Admiral for a court-martial of a little 

 different nature from that they had con- 

 cocted, when they would most assuredly 

 be dismissed the service. In the mean- 

 time, they were not to do duty any 

 more as officers on board his ship, nor 

 were they to appear on the quarter- 

 deck. This sentence, however severe it 

 may be thought, was put in force im- 

 mediately by the captain calling in his 

 clerk, who in their presence erased their 

 names from the list of petty officers in 

 the ship's books, reducing them to the 

 rank of A. B. or 0. S. s in which ca- 

 pacity some of them were compelled to 

 do duty; one of them, I remember, who 

 had in the early part of the voyage 

 fallen under the captain's displeasure, 

 was put in the foretop. 



This was the unfortunate youth who 

 could not eat two breakfasts. " Henry 

 Parry," bawled out the first lieutenant, 

 " you will do duty in the foretop star- 



