After cross-examining him in the best manner I was able, I could find no inconsistency in his account.
I asked Dixon how the captain came to treat the surgeon's mate in particular so ill.

He said he had treated them all much alike.

A person of the name of Bulpin, he believed, was the only one who had escaped bad usage in the ship.

With respect to himself, he had been cruelly used so early as in the outward bound passage, which had occasioned him to jump overboard.

When taken up, he was put into irons, and kept in these for a considerable time.