Matthew Pyke not only showed him his arm and his back, but acquainted him with the murder of Charles Horseler, stating that he had the instrument of his death in his possession.

The purser seemed more alive to this than to any other circumstance, and wished to get it from him.

Pyke, however, had given it to me.

Now what will the reader think, when he is informed that the purser, after all this knowledge of the captain's cruelty, sent him out again, and that he was the same person, who was purser of the Brothers, and who had also sent out the captain of that ship a second time, as has been related, notwithstanding his barbarities in former voyages!!] This advice, though it was judicious, and founded on a knowledge of Law-proceedings, I found it very difficult to adopt.

My own disposition was naturally such, that whatever I engaged in I followed with more than ordinary warmth.