Many a man has died because of the neglect of the ship's surgeons; many have been kicked about the head and beaten, and haven't dared to go on the sick list for fear of their officers.

The Victualling Board gets money to supply us with food and drink according to measure.
They get the money for a full pound and a full gallon, and we get fourteen ounces of food and seven pints of liquor, or less.

Well, what do you say, friends, to being our own Victualling Board out in the open sea, if we can get there?
"We may have to fight when we get out; but I'm for taking the Ariadne into the great world battle when we can find it.

This I want to ask--isn't it worth while making a great fight in our own way, and showing that British seamen can at once be mutineers and patriots?
We have a pilot who knows the river.

We can go to the West Indian Islands, to the British fleet there.