There were three or four persons who kept journals of the cruise.

One of these journalists embellished his work--which was written in a large blank account-book--with various coloured illustrations of the harbours and bays at which the frigate had touched; and also, with small crayon sketches of comical incidents on board the frigate itself.

He would frequently read passages of his book to an admiring circle of the more refined sailors, between the guns.

They pronounced the whole performance a miracle of art.

As the author declared to them that it was all to be printed and published so soon as the vessel reached home, they vied with each other in procuring interesting items, to be incorporated into additional chapters.