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of the officers of the Globe whose aim 
was to maintain a correct discipline, 
which should result in the furtherance 
of the voyage and be a benefit to all 
concerned, more especially when he is 
informed, that part of the men shipped 
at Oahu, in the room of the deserters, 
were abandoned wretches, who fre¬ 
quently were the cause of severe repri¬ 
mands from the officers, and in one in¬ 
stance one of them received a severe 
flogging. The reader will also please 
to bear in mind, that Samuel B. Com¬ 
stock, the ringleader of the mutiny, was 
an officer, (being a boat-steerer,) and as 
is customary, ate in the cabin; The 
conduct and deportment of the Captain 
towards this individual, was always dec¬ 
orous and gentlemanly, a proof of inten¬ 
tions long premeditated to destroy the 
ship. Some of the crew were deter¬ 
mined to leave the ship provided she 
touched at Fannings Island, and we be¬ 
lieve had concerted a plan of escape, 
but of which the perpetration of a deed 
chilling to humanity, precluded the n§« 
