put into a bag, hung to the mast,[27] had inflamed the imagination of these unfortunate wretches.  We were obliged to take our arms again; but how were we to discover the guilty? they were pointed out to us, by our sailors, who remained faithful, and ranged themselves near us; one of them had refused to engage in the plot.  The first signal, for combat, was given by a Spaniard, who, placing himself behind the mast, laid fast hold of it, made the sign of the Cross with one hand, invoking the name of God, and held a knife in the other:  the sailors seized him, and threw him into the sea.  The servant of an officer of the troops on board was in the plot.  He was an Italian from the light artillery of the Ex-King of his country.  When he perceived that the plot was discovered, he armed himself with the last boarding-axe that there was on the raft, wrapped himself in a piece of drapery, which he wore folded over his breast, and, of his own accord, threw himself into the sea.  The mutineers rushed forward to avenge their comrades, a terrible combat again ensued, and both sides fought with desperate fury.  Soon the fatal raft was covered with dead bodies, and flowing with blood which, ought to have been shed in another cause, and by other hands.  In this tumult cries, with which we were familiar, were renewed, and we heard the imprecations of the horrid rage which demanded the head of Lieutenant Danglas!  Our readers know that we could not satisfy this mad rage, because the victim, demanded, had fled the dangers to which we were exposed; but even if this officer had remained among us, we should most certainly have defended his life at the expence of our own, as we did that of Lieutenant Lozach.  But it was not for him that we were reduced to exert, against these madmen, all the courage we possessed.

We again replied to the cries of the assailants, that he whom they demanded was not with us; but we had no more success in persuading them; nothing could make them recollect themselves; we were obliged to continue to combat them, and to oppose force to those over whom reason had lost all its influence.  In this confusion the unfortunate woman was, a second time, thrown into the sea.  We perceived it, and Mr. Coudin, assisted by some workmen, took her up again, to prolong, for a few moments, her torments and her existence.

In this horrible night, Lavillette gave further proofs of the rarest intrepidity.  It was to him, and to some of those who have escaped the consequences of our misfortunes, that we are indebted for our safety.  At length, after unheard-of efforts, the mutineers were again repulsed, and tranquillity restored.  After we had escaped this new danger, we endeavoured to take some moment’s repose.  The day at length rose on us for the fifth time.  We were now only thirty left; we had lost four or five of our faithful sailors; those who survived were in the most deplorable state; the sea-water had almost entirely excoriated our lower extremities; we were covered