all knowledge of the present with drink."

He raved and stormed, and then called upon the crew to help him; but Mr
Vallance told them that he would be answerable to the owners for their
conduct, and not a man stirred. I spoke to him till he turned angry,
and insisted upon my keeping to the command, and backed up at last by
both passengers and crew, who laughed, and seemed to enjoy it; but I
must say that, until we cast anchor in Yarmouth Roads, they obeyed me to
a man.

So they made the captain keep for all the world like a prisoner to his
cabin till we entered the Tyne, after being detained a few days only in
the Roads, where it had been necessary to refit, both of the topmasts
being snapped, and the jib-boom being sprung, besides our being leaky,
though not so bad but that a couple of hours a day after the first
clearance kept the water under.

Before we had passed Harwich very far, we had the beach yawls out, one
after another, full of men wanting to board us and take us into harbour,
so as to claim salvage. One and all had the same tale to tell us--that
we could never get into port ourselves; and more than once it almost
took force to keep them from taking possession, for, not content with
rendering help when it is wanted, they are only too ready to make their
help necessary, and have frightened many a captain before now into
giving up his charge into other hands. But with Mr Vallance at my
back, I stood firm; and somehow or another I did feel something very
much like pride when I took the brig safely into port, and listened to
the owners remarks.

THE END.

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