I considered him as irrecoverably gone.

They all complained to me of their bad usage on board the Thomas.

They said they had heard, of my being in Bristol, and they hoped I would not leave it without inquiring into the murder of William Lines.
On inquiring who William Lines was, they informed me that he had been one of the crew of the same ship, and that all on board believed that he had been killed by the chief mate; but they themselves had not been present when the blows were given him; they had not seen him till afterwards; but their shipmates had told them of his cruel treatment, and they knew that soon afterwards he had died.
In the course of the next day, the mother of Lines, who lived in Bristol, came to me and related the case.

I told her there was no evidence as to the fact, for that I had seen three seamen, who could not speak to it from their own knowledge.

She said, there were four others then in Bristol who could; I desired her to fetch them.