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irrkated paffions, and fuggell: to his mind thi 
jneans of terminating the afFray. 
There was no way by which to quit the vejf* 
,fel ; and, as w^e had arrived at this extremity, 
it would have been equally daftardly and in- 
.difcreet to abandon the crew to the mercy of 
,fp furious a tempeftv 
The preparations for fupper afforded' but 
little relief from the trouble in which we were 
.all plunged ; and we thought, therefore, of re- 
tiring to reft. The captain gave his bed to 
Percheron, while I had that of the firft pilot, 
which w^as fituated in a cabin upon the deck* 
In this cabin was a window, the panes of 
which had been broken at the commencement 
of the difturbance. It is upon fuch things, 
upon windows and lamps, that your malcon- 
tents always vent their firft fpite ; as if the 
noife occafioned by the breaking, of them was 
calculated to appeafe and fatisfy their ven- 
geance* Thefe broken panes were a fubjed 
of alarming inquietude J I confidered them as 
a fecond Judas ; becaufe, fronting the head of 
.my bed^ they affbrded an eafy opportunity to 
any ill-difpofed perfon in pofTefTion of a piftoJ, 
•to (hoot me during the night, fliould the dif- 
turbance 
