After searching about for some time, we could find nothing more fit for our purpose than the two pump-handles, one of which Augustus took, and I the other.
Having secured these, we stripped off the shirt of the corpse and dropped the body overboard.

Peters and myself then went below, leaving Augustus to watch upon deck, where he took his station just where Allen had been placed, and with his back to the cabin companionway, so that, if any of the mates gang should come up, he might suppose it was the watch.
As soon as I got below I commenced disguising myself so as to represent the corpse of Rogers.

The shirt which we had taken from the body aided us very much, for it was of singular form and character, and easily recognizable--a kind of smock, which the deceased wore over his other clothing.

It was a blue stockinett, with large white stripes running across.

Having put this on, I proceeded to equip myself with a false stomach, in imitation of the horrible deformity of the swollen corpse.
This was soon effected by means of stuffing with some bedclothes.