assist me, and every
endeavour on my part was answered with threats of death.

The officers were next called upon deck and forced over the side into the
boat, while I was kept apart from everyone, abaft the mizenmast;
Christian, armed with a buoyant, holding me by the bandage that secured
my hands. The guard round me had their pieces cocked, but on my daring
the ungrateful wretches to fire they uncocked them.

Isaac Martin, one of the guard over me, I saw had an inclination to
assist me, and as he fed me with shaddock (my lips being quite parched)
we explained our wishes to each other by our looks; but this being
observed Martin was removed from me. He then attempted to leave the ship,
for which purpose he got into the boat; but with many threats they
obliged him to return.

The armourer, Joseph Coleman, and two of the carpenters, McIntosh and
Norman, were also kept contrary to their inclination; and they begged of
me, after I was astern in the boat, to remember that they declared they
had no hand in the transaction. Michael Byrne, I am told, likewise wanted
to leave the ship.

It is of no moment for me to recount my endeavours to bring back the
offenders to a sense of their duty: all I could do was by speaking to
them in general; but it was to no purpose, for I was kept securely bound
and no one except the guard suffered to come near me.

To Mr. Samuel I am indebted for securing my journals and commission with
some material ship papers. Without these I had nothing to certify what I
had done, and my honour and character might have been suspected without
my possessing a proper document to have defended them. All this he did
with great resolution, though guarded and strictly watched. He attempted
to save the timekeeper, and a box with my surveys, drawings, and remarks
for fifteen years past, which were numerous, when he was hurried away,
with "Damn your eyes you are well off to get what you have."

It appeared to me that Christian was some time in doubt whether he should
keep the carpenter or his mates; at length he determined on the latter
and the carpenter was ordered into the boat. He was permitted but not
without some opposition to take his tool chest.

Much altercation took place among the mutinous crew during the whole
business: some swore "I'll be damned if he does not find his way home, if
he gets anything with him," (meaning me) and, when the carpenter's chest
was carrying away, "Damn my eyes he will have