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prayers translated by him into the language of 
Otaheite. 
Captain Edwards, and the remainder of the 
crew, after leaving the sandy quay, made their 
way in the ship's boats to Timor, where they 
arrived September 15th, 1791. 
They had in the mean time suffered dreadful 
privations. A very small allowance of bread 
and water per day was carefully served out to the 
men, the weight of each portion of bread being 
ascertained by a musket-ball. A pair of wooden 
scales had been made for each of the four boats. 
One of the seamen went mad and died from 
drinking salt water to quench his intolerable 
thirst. In Captain Edwards's boat one of the 
mutineers was observed to be engaged in his 
private devotions ; but he was roughly inter- 
rupted by the Captain, who however afterwards 
gave prayers himself among his company. Who 
the poor prisoner was, that was not ashamed to 
be seen by his fellows in the act of prayer, and 
whose devotions were thus rudely prevented, we 
are not told; but the circumstance is one of 
too affecting and instructive a nature to be 
overlooked. 
It is a remarkable fact, that Lieutenant Thomas 
Hayward, who had been in the Bounty and 
launch with Bligh, and afterwards in the Pan- 
dora with Edwards, was, in consequence of the 
wreck, again set adrift in an open boat, again 
exposed to serious hardships on the sea, and 
again permitted to reach Timor in safety! 
Who does not discern the wonder-working 
hand of Divine Providence in these things ? 
