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full account of the reasons why I thought it best, as our present circumstances were stated, not to go to the South Seas first, but to go away to the Philippine Islands, and what great prospect of advantage to the owners there was, as well as to the men; and that I wondered much that such measures were taking in the ship, as I heard there were; and that I was not, they might see, unprovided of means to reduce every one of them to their duty by force, and to punish those that were guilty as they deserved; but that I rather desired to win them by kindness; and that therefore, I had resolved, that if any of them had any reason to dislike the voyage, they should be fairly set on shore, and should go to the second mate and his comrades; and as I named the second mate I told them what circumstances they were in, and how effectually they were secured.

This astonished them, and surprised them exceedingly, and some of them inquired more particularly into the circumstances of the said second mate and his fellows. I told them they were safe enough, and should remain so; for as I could prove they had all a villanous design to run away with the ship, and set me on shore, either here or in a worse place, I thought that only on account of my own safety, such men were not fit to go in the ship, being once capable to entertain such horrid, mischievous thoughts, or that could be guilty of such villany; and that if any of them were of their minds, they were very welcome, if they thought fit, to go to them. At this word, some bold rogues upon the forecastle, which I did not discern by reason of the number that stood there, cried out-" One and all," which was a cry at that time of mutiny and rebellion, that was certain, and its kind, very dangerous.

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which I did calmly and smiling:—“ Why, how
now, Tom," says I to one of them, "what! are
you among the mutineers?"--"Lord, sir," says
Tom, "not I, they are mad, I think, I have
nothing to say to them, I care not where I go,
not I; I'll go round the globe with you; it's all
one to me."" Well, Tom,” says I, “but what
do you do among them, then? Come away into
the steerage, and show yourself an honest man.
So Tom comes in, and after him another, and
then two more. Upon my saying to Tom,
"What do you do among them?" one of the
fellows says to one of the officers that stood at
a little distance from me, "What does the cap-
tain mean by saying among them. What!
does he reckon us to be in the plot? He is
quite wrong; we are all ignorant, and quite sur-
prised at it." He immediately tells me this, and
I was glad, you may be sure, to hear it, and said
aloud to the man he spoke to," If they are
honest men, and would not appear in this vil-
lany, let them go down between decks, and get
out of the way, that they may have no share in
the punishment, if they have none in the crime.* |
"With all my heart," says one. "God bless
you, captain," says another."-And away they
dropped, one by one, in at the steerage door, and
down between decks, every one to his hammock
or cabin, till there was not above five or six of
them left.

By this time our two boats appeared from the shore, being both manned with Dutchmen, viz, ↑ the Dutch captain's mate, and about twenty of his men, all the water-casks full, but not a man of mine with them, for they were left a shore in safe custody.

I waited till they came on board, and then, turning to the men on the forecastle, I told them they should go on board the boats immediately, as soon as the butts of water were hoisted in. They still said, " One and all," they were ready, and desired they might go and fetch their clothes. No, no," says I, "not a man of you shall set your foot any more into the ship; but go, get you into the boats, and what is your own shall be given you into the boat."

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However, to let them see I was not to be daunted with it, I called out to one of the men among them, who I saw upon the forecastle, "You Jones," says I, "tell me who that was, and come away from them, for I'll make an example of him, whoever he is." Will Jones slunk in among the rest, and made me no answer, and immediately "One and all" was cried again, and a little huzza with it, and As I spoke this in an angry tone, and with a some of the men appeared to have some fire-kind of passion, that looked provoked to a high arms with them. There was a great many of them, and I presently foresaw, that if I went to the extremity, I should spoil the voyage though conquered them; so I bridled my passion with all my might, and said calmly, "Very well, gentlemen, let me know what it is you mean by One and all;' I offered any of you that did not like to go the voyage, might quit the ship. Is it that you intend by One and all?" If so, you are welcome, and pray take care to do it immediately. As for what chests and clothes you have in the ship, you shall have them all with you. Upon this I made the chief mate, who was now come to me again, advance a little with some more men, and get between the men upon the forecastle and those who were upon the main deck; and, as if he had wanted room, when he was gotten between them, he said to them, Stand a little aft, gentlemen," and so crowded them towards me.

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As they came nearer and nearer to where I stood, I had opportunity to speak to them singly,

degree, they began to see they had no room to choose; and some of them slipped down the scuttle into the cook-room. I had ordered the officer who was there, who was one of the midshipmen, to wink at it, and let as many come down as offered it; and the honest man did more than that; for he went to the scuttle himself, and as if he had whispered, so that I should not hear him, called them one by one by their names, and argued with them:-“Prithee, Jack,” says he to one of them, "don't you be distracted and ruin yourself, to gratify a rash drunken bumour; if you go into the boat, you are undone, you will be seized as soon as you come ashore, as the rest are, and will be sent to England in irons, and there you will be infallibly hanged. Why you are certainly all mad." Jack replies, he had no design to mutiny, but the second mate drew him in, and he did not know what to do; he wished he had not meddled, but he was undone; now what could he do? Do," says the midshipman, "leave them for shame, and slip

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down here, and I'll see and get you off, if I can." Accordingly, he pulled him down, and after him so many got out of sight the same way, that there was not above seventeen or eighteen left upon the forecastle.

I seemed to take no notice of that; til at last one of the men that was left there, with his bat in his hand, stepping just to the edge of the forecastle, which was next to me, said in a very respectful manner, that I saw how many had slunk away and made their peace, or at least obtained pardon, and that I might, perhaps, know that they who were left were only such as had their duty there, being placed there of course, before the mutiny began, and that they had no hand in it, but abhorred it with all their hearts, which he hoped I would consider, and not join them with those that had offended, merely because they came upon the forecastle, and mixed there with the men who had the watch.

I told him if that was true it would be in their favour, but I expected he would prove it to my satisfaction before I accepted that for an excuse. He told me it might, perhaps, be hard to prove it, seeing the boatswain and his mate, and the second mate were gone, but the rest of the ship's crew could all testify that they were a part of the men whose watch it was, and that they were upon the forecastle by the necessity of their duty, and no otherwise, and called such and such men who were upon duty with them to witness it, who did confirm it.

Upon this I found myself under a necessity, in justice to the men, to approve it: but my own management was a bite upon myself in it; for though I did allow the midshipmen to wink at their slipping away as before, yet I made no question but I should have some left to make examples of; but as I could not go back from the promise of mercy which I had allowed the midshipman to offer in my name, so I tricked myself by their mistake into a necessity of pardoning them all, which was very far from my design; but there was no remedy.

However, the men, when they were so happily escaped, desired the midshipmen, who had been instrumental to deliver them, to assure me, that as they were sensible they had deserved very ill at my hands, and that yet I had treated them thus kindly, they would not only reveal to me all the particulars of the conspiracy and the names of those principally concerned in it, but that they would assure me they would never more dispute any of my measures, but were very ready to do their duty as seamen to what part of the world soever I might think fit to go, or which way I thought fit to carry them; whether outward or homeward, and that they gave me the tender of their duty in this manner with the utmost sincerity and with thankfulness for my having forgiven them that conduct which was the worst that a seaman could be guilty of.

I took this very kindly, and sent them word I did so, and that they should find they had taken the wiser course, that I had an entire confidence in their fidelity, and that they should never find I would reproach them with or use them the worse for what had passed.

I must confess I was very glad of this submission of the men; for though by the measures

I had taken I was satisfied I should conquer them, and that I was safe from their attempts; yet carrying it on by resentment, and doing justice upon the offenders, whatever advantage it had one way, had this disadvantage in the consequence, viz., that it would ruin the voyage, for at least half the men were in the plot.

But having thus conquered them by good usage, I thought my next work was to inquire into the mistakes which had been the foundation of all this; so before I parted with the men who had returned to their duty, I told them that as I had freely forgiven what was past, so I would keep my word with them that I would never reproach them with it; but that I thought it was necessary their judgments should be convinced how much they were imposed upon, as well as their tempers be reduced by my kindness to them. That I was of opinion that they had been abused in the account given them of what I had designed to do, and of the reasons I had to give for doing it; and I would desire them to let me know afterwards whether they had been faithfully informed of things or not; and whether, in their own judgment, now when they were freed from the prepossessions they were under, they could object anything against it or no.

This I did with respect to the other men whom I had made prisoners in the steerage, whom I had the same desire to be kind to as I had to these; but upon whom I resolved to work this way, because, after all, I might have this work to do over again, if I should meet with any disappointment or miscarriage in the voyage; or especially if we should be put to any straits or distress in the pursuing of it.

In order to this, I caused the voyage itself, and the reasons of it, the nature of the trade I was to carry on by it, the pusuit of it to the South Seas,-in a word, everything just as we had argued and settled it in the great cabin, to be put in writing and read to them.

The fellows, every one of them, declared they were fully satisfied in the voyage itself, and that my reasons for it were perfectly good; and that they had received a quite different account of it; as that I would carry them into the island of the Moluccas, which was the most unhealthy part of the East Indies; that I would go away to the south for new discoveries; and that I would go away thence to the South Seas; which was a voyage of such a length that no ship could victual for; that it was impossible to carry fresh water such a length; and, in a word, that it was a voyage that would destroy us all.

It was the chief mate and the midshipman who took them all down the scuttle that brought me this account from them; so I made him take two of those penitent mutineers with him, and go to the men in the steerage, whom he had made prisoners at first, and see whether their delusions were of the same kind, and what kind of temper they were in. Accordingly, he went to them directly, for this was not a business that admitted giving them time to club and cabal together, and form other societies or combinations which might have consequences fatal to us still.

When the came to them, he told them the captain was willing to do all the justice possible to his men, and to use them on all occasions with

equity and kindness; I ordered him to inquire calmly what it was had moved them to these disorders, and what it was which they had been made to believe was doing, that they could enter into measures so destructive to themselves, and to those who had entrusted them all with the ship and cargo; for that in a voyage, every foremast-man, in his degree, is trusted with the safety of the whole ship.

They answered it was the mate: that they had never shown themselves discontented, much less disorderly in the ship; that they had on all occasions done their duty through the whole voyage till now, and that they had no ill design upon any one, much less had they any design to destroy the voyage, or injure the captain; but that they were all told by the second mate that the captain had imposed upon them, that he had proposed a mad voyage to the South Pole, that would murder them all, and that they were to lay aside the trading and cruising voyages which they came out upon, and were now to spend the whole voyage in new discoveries, by which the men could propose nothing to themselves but hardships, and perhaps perishing with hunger and cold; whereas, had they gone to the South Seas, as was intended, they might all have been made, and that the hazards, with that prospect, had some sense in them; whereas in this project there was nothing but certain destruction.

The mate delivered them a copy of the scheme I had proposed, the reasons of it, the trade I had designed, the return I was to make, and everything as I have already mentioned it, and bid them take it and consider of it.

As I was justly provoked to see how I had been abused and misrepresented to the men, so they were astonished when they read my scheme, and saw what mischiefs they had been led into, for they know not what, and without any reason or just consideration. And after they had debated things a while among themselves, they desired the chief mate might come to them again, which he did. Then they told him that, as they had been thus grossly abused and drawn into mischiefs which they never designed, by such plausible pretences, and by being told such a long story full of lies, and to carry on a hellish project of the second mate's, they hoped then, being so much imposed upon would a little extenuate their fault; that they were convinced that the captain had proposed nothing but what was very rational, and a voyage that might be very profitable to the owners and to themselves, and that they entirely threw themselves upon the captain's mercy, and humbly begged pardon; that if I pleased to forgive them, they would endeavour to merit such forgiveness by their future behaviour; and that in the meantime they submitted to what punishment I pleased to lay upon them; and particularly, that as they had forfeited, by their conspiracy, all the claim they had upon the ship, and might justly have been turned ashore at the first land they came to, they were willing to sign a discharge for all their wages due to them, which was now near eight months a-man, and to be considered for the rest of the voyage as they deserved; that they would all take a solemn oath of fidelity to me to do their duty, to go wherever I would carry them, and

to behave with the greatest submission and diligence, in hopes to regain my favour by their future behaviour, and to show their gratitude for the pardon I should grant them.

This was, indeed, just as I would have it, for I wanted nothing more than to have something offered, which I might give them back again; for I ever thought, and have found it by experience to be the best way, and men were always secured in their duty by a generous kindness, better than by the absolute dominion and severity; indeed my opinion was justified in all the measures I took with these men; for as I found they were sufficiently humbled, and that I had brought them low enough, I let them know that it was not their punishment, but their amendment I desired; that I scorned to make a prey of them, and take that forfeiture: they had offered, so putting the wages due to them for their labour in my pocket. But I sent them word I was very glad to hear that they were sensible how much they had been imposed upon; that as it was not my design to offer anything to them which they or any honest men ought to refuse, so it was not my desire to make any advantages of their follies, but what might tend to bring them back to their duty; that as I had no prospect that was inconsistent with their safety and interest, so I scorned to make a profit of their submission; that as to their wages, though they had forfeited it by their mutiny, yet God forbid I should make it my profit; and since forgiving their offence was in my power, the crime being in one particular an offence against me, they should never be able to say I made a gain of their submission, and like the Pope, should sell them my pardon; that upon their solemn engaging to me never to offer the least disturbance of any kind in the ship for the future, but to do their duty faithfully and cheerfully, I would forget all that was past, only this excepted, viz., that two of them who were particularly guilty of threatening the life of Captain Merlotte, should be punished as they de served.

They could not deny but this was most just; and they did not so much as offer to intercede for those two; but when one of the two moved the rest, they answered they could not do it, for they had received favour enough for themselves, and they could not desire anything of the captain for their sakes, for they had all deserved punishment as well as they.

In a word, the two men were brought to the geers, and soundly whipped and pickled; and they all proved very honest ever after. And these, as I said at first, were two-and-thirty in all.

All this while Captain Merlotte, with his Frenchmen, were in arms, and had possession on the quarter-deck, to the number of twenty-three stout men; I had possession of the main-deck. with eighteen men and the sixteen Dutchmen. and my chief mate, with the midshipman, had possession of the cook-room and the quarterdeck; the Dutch captain, our supercargo, the surgeon, and the other captain, kept the great cabin, with a guard of twelve musqueteers with out the door, and about eight more within, besides servants. Captain Merlotte's men, als

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had a guard of eight men in the round-house. || I had now nothing to do but with my men who were on shore; and of these, six of them were indifferent, being men not embarked in the design, but carried on shore by the chief mate, with a design to engage them with him; so that indeed, they fell into a punishment before they fell into the crime, and what to do with these men was the case.

The first thing I did was to dismiss my visitor, the Dutch captain, whom I had a great deal of reason to think myself exceedingly obliged to; and first, I handsomely rewarded his men, to whom I gave four pieces of eight a-man; and having waited on the captain to the ship's side, and seen him into his boat, I fired him twentyone guns at his going off, for which he fired twenty-five when he came on board his ship. The same afternoon, I sent my pinnace on board for my drunken cockswain, and with the pinnace sent the captain three dozen bottles of English beer, and a quarter-cask of Canary, which was the best present I had to make him, and sent every one of his other seamen a piece of eight per man; and indeed the assistance I had from the ship deserved it; and to the mate, who acted so bravely with my men on shore, sent fifty pieces of eight.

privateer had killed them some men; but in the
heat of the fight, the sloop received a shot, which
brought her main-mast by the board, and this
caused the captain of the frigate to sheer off,
fearing his sloop would be taken; but the sloop's
men took care of themselves, for hauling a little
out of the fight, they got into their own boats,
and a boat which the frigate sent to their help,
and abandoned the sloop, which the Dutchmen
perceiving, they manned out their boats, and
sent and took the sloop, with all that was in her,
and brought her away with them.

The Dutchmen came into the road at the Cape
with this prize while our ship was there the
second time, and we saw them bringing the
sloop in a tow, having no mast standing but a
little pole-mast set up for the present, and her
mizen, which was also disabled and of little use
to her.

I no sooner saw her, but it came into my thoughts that if she was anything of a sea-boat, she would do our business to a tittle; and as we had always resolved to get another ship, but had been disappointed, this would answer our end exactly. Accordingly, I went with my chief mate in our shallop, on board my old acquaintIance the Dutch captain, and inquiring there, was informed of the case, that it was a prize, taken as above, and that in all probability the captain that took her would be glad to part with her, and the captain promised me to go on board the ship that brought her in, and inquire about it, and let me know.

The next day, I went on shore to pay my respects to the governor, when I had all the prisoners delivered up to me; the six men, I caused to be immediately set at liberty, as having been innocent, and brought all the rest on board, tied hand and foot, as prisoners, and continued them so a great while afterward, as you shall hear. As for the second mate, I tried him formally by a council of war, as I was empowered by my commission to do, and sentenced him to be hanged at the yard-arm; and though I suspended the execution from day to day, yet I kept him in expectation of the halter every hour, which, to some, would have been as grievous as the hanging itself.

Thus we conquered this desperate mutiny, all principally proceeding from suffering the private disputes among ourselves, which ought to have been the arcana of the whole voyage, and kept as secret as death itself could have kept it, 1 mean so as not to come among the seamen afore the mast.

Accordingly, the next morning, the captain sent me word I might have her; that she carried eight guns, had good store of provisions on board, with ammunition sufficient, and I might have her and all that was in her for 1,200 pieces of eight. In a word, I sent my chief mate back with the same messenger and the money, giving him commission to pay the money and take possession of her, if he liked her, which he did; and the Dutch captain, my friend, lent him twelve men to bring her off to us, which they did the same day.

I was a little put to it for a mast for her, not having anything on board that we could spare that was fit for a main-mast; but resolving at last to mast her, not as a sloop, but as a brigantine, we made shift with what spare pieces we We lay here twelve days, during which time had, and a spare foretop-mast, which one of the we took in fresh water, as much as we had casks Dutch ships helped me to, so we fitted her up On the 13th day very handsomely, made her carry twelve guns, One of the best for, and were able to stow. of August we weighed and stood away to the and put sixty men on board. east, designing to make no land any more till we things we found on board her was cask, which we came to Java Head, and the Straits of Sunda,greatly wanted, especially for barrelling up beef, for that way we intended to sail; but the wind and other provisions, which we found very diflicult; but our cooper eked them out with making sprung up at E., and at E. S. E., and blew so some new ones out of her old ones. fresh that we were obliged, after two days' beating against it, to bear away afore it, and run back to the Cape of Good Hope.

While we were here, there came in two Dutch East Indiamen more, homeward bound, to whom had happened a very odd accident, as follows:They had been attacked by a large ship of fortyfour guns, and a stout sloop of eight guns; the Dutch ships, resolving to assist one another, stood up to the Frenchman, for such it seems he was, and fought him very warmly. The engagement lasted six or seven hours, in which the

After staying here sixteen days more, we sailed again, indeed. I thought once we should never have gone away at all; for it is certain above half the men in the ship were made uneasy, and there remained still some misunderstanding of my design, and a supposition of all the frightful things the second mate had put into their heads; and by his means, the boatswain and gunner. As these three had the principal management of the conspiracy, and that I had pardoned all the "rest, I had some thoughts of making an example

of these. I took care to let them know it, too, in a manner that they had no room to think it was in jest, but that I intended to have them all three hanged; I kept them above three weeks in suspense about it. However, as I had no intention to put them to death, I thought it was a piece of cruelty, something worse than death, to keep them continually in expectation of it, and in a place, too, where they had but little | more than room to breathe.

So having been seventeen days gone from the Cape, I resolved to relieve them a little, and yet at the same time remove them out of the way of doing me any capital injury, if they should have any such design still in their heads. For this purpose, I caused them to be removed out of the ship into the brigantine, and there I permitted them to have a little more liberty than they had on board the great ship, and where two of them entered into another devilsh conspiracy, as wild and foolish as ever I heard of, or as, perhaps, was ever heard of, of which I shall say more in its place.

We were now to sail in company, and we went away from the Cape the third of September, anno 1740. We found the brigantine an excellent sea-boat, and could bear the weather to a miracle, and no bad sailer; she kept pace with us on all occasions, and in a storm we had at S. S. E., some days after, she shifted as well as we did in the great ship, which made us all in love with her.

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This storm drove us away to the northward, and I once thought we should have been driven back to the Cape again; which if it had happened, I believe we should never have gone on with the voyage; for the men began to murmur again, and say we were bewitched, that we were beaten | off first from the south of America, that we could never get round there, and now driven back from the South of Africa; so that it looked as if Fate had determined this voyage to be pursued no further. The wind continued, and blew exceeding hard; and in short, we were driven so far to the north, that we made the south point of the island of Madagascar.

My pilot knew it to be Madagascar as soon as he had a clear view of the land, and having beaten so long against the sea to no purpose, and being in want of many things, we resolved to put in; and accordingly made for Port St Augustine, on the west side of the island, where we came to an anchor in eleven fathom water, and a very good road.

I could not be without a great many anxious thoughts upon our coming into this island, for I knew very well that there were a gang of desperate rogues here, especially on the northern coast, who had been famous for their piracies, and I did not know but that they might be either strong enough as pirates to take us, or rogues enough to entice a great many of my men to run away; so I resolved neither to come near enough the shore to be surprised, nor to suffer any of my men to go on shore, such excepted as I could be very secure of.

But I was soon informed by a Dutchman, who came off to me with some natives in a kind of a canvas boat, that there were no Europeans there but himself, and that the pirates were on

the north part of the island; that they had no ship with them of any force, and that they would be glad to be fetched off by any Christian ship; that they were not above two hundred in number, their chief leaders, with the only ships of force they had, being out a cruising on the coast of Arabia and the Gulf of Persia.

After this, I went on shore myself, with Captain Merlotte, and some of the men who I could trust, and we found it true, as the Dutchman had related. The Dutchman gave us a long history of his adventures, and how he came to be left there by a ship he came in from Europe, which, he running up into the country for sport, with three more of his comrades, went away without them, and left them among the natives, who, however, used them very well, and that now he served them for an interpreter and a broker, to bargain for them with the European ships for provisions. Accordingly, he engaged to bring us what provisions we pleased, and proposed such trinkets in return as he knew the natives desired, and as were of value little enough to us, but he desired a consideration for himself in money, which, though it was of no use to him there, he said it might be hereafter; and as his demand was but twenty pieces of eight, we thought he very well deserved it.

Here we bought a great quantity of beef, which, having no casks to spare, we salted, and then cured it in the sun, by the Dutchman's direction, and it proved of excellent use to us through the whole voyage, for we kept some of it till we came to England, but it was then so hard that a good hatchet would hardly cut it.

While we lay here, it came into my thoughts that now was a good time to execute justice upon my prisoners; so I called a council of war, and proposed it to them in general terms, not letting them know my mind as to the manner of it. They all agreed that it was necessary, and the second mate, boatswain, and gunner, had so much intelligence of it from the men, that they prepared for death as much as if I had signed a death-warrant for their execution, and that they were to be hanged at the yard-arm. But in the middle of those resolves I told the council of officers that my design was to the north part of the island, where a gang of pirates were said to be settled, and that I was persuaded I might get a good ship among them, and as many men as we desired, for that I was satisfied the greatest part of them were so wearied of their present government, that they would be glad of an opportunity to come away, and especially such as had by force, or rash hasty resolutions, been, as it were, surprised into that sort of life; that I had been informed they were very far from being in such a formidable posture as they had been represented to us in Europe, or anything near so numerous, but that on the contrary we should find them poor, divided, in distress, and willing to get away upon any terms they could.

Some of the officers of the ship differed from me in my opinion; they had received such ideas of the figure those people made at Madagascar, from the common report in England, that they had no notion of them, but as of a little commonweath of robbers; that they were immensely rich, that Captain Avery was king of

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