I think he was the most pitiable object I ever saw.

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.