BLIGH AND HIS CREW. 35 
should receive of bread at the time I 
served it." 
The allowance of half-a-pint of cocoa-nut 
milk was soon reduced to a quarter of a pint ; 
and these poor men, in their deep distress, 
at last relished even the wetted and decayed 
bread, which was doled out to each in the 
most careful and scrupulous manner. A 
storm of thunder and lightning, with heavy 
rain, though it drenched them once more to 
the skin, was yet very acceptable, as it gave 
them about twenty gallons of water. 
The annexed engraving, from a drawing 
made expressly for this work from the origi- 
nals, shows the bowl, or gourd, out of which 
the commander took his meals ; the bullet- 
weight ; the little quarter-of-a-pint horn mug 
for serving out the water ; and, though last, 
not the least interesting, Bligh's own boat- 
log-book. All these are much treasured by 
his daughters, who kindly permitted them 
to be sketched. 
The diameter of the gourd is rather more 
than five inches: the depth nearly four 
inches. The following words are cut with 
a knife under the string, 
