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purser's cabin, and laid me in his cot. 



It appeared to all that I had been struck 

 down by a coup de soleil, or sun-stroke, 

 which when I was carried below was 

 thought to be fatal, and my resuscitation 

 did not a little surprise all hands. Without 

 the aid of medicine I gradually recovered, 

 and to all appearance was soon fit for duty, 

 although from the ship's being moored, only 

 one midshipman was necessary for each 

 watch. 



In the course of two or three days the 

 captain went up to Calcutta, having there 

 two brothers, one a civilian, the other in 

 the king's or company's army. It was not 

 long before he summoned his three young- 

 sters to attend him there. We left the ship 

 at midnight, not without some little appre- 

 hension, as one of our boats with six men, 

 the coxswain and the doctor's mate, the 

 same I have before spoken of in connection 

 with the cobbing affair, was swamped, and 

 every one of them had perished, it was 



