Monday the 10th, wind at N. and N.N.W. rainy weather.  Eat slaugh and sea-weed fryed with tallow-candles, which we picked up along shore; this we reckon at present exceeding good eating, having nothing to live on but a quarter of a pound of flour a man per day, and what we can get off the rocks:  For many days the weather has been so bad that we have not been able to stir abroad, though almost starved for want of food.

Tuesday the 11th, hard gales at S.W. with heavy rains.  This afternoon the people came in arms to acquaint us of the stores being robbed; they therefore wanted our consent for moving the stores to our tent; on which we desired they would desist from offering any violence:  We told ’em of the ill consequence of mutiny, which, as we always abhorred, we took all imaginable care to prevent:  The people, on our persuasions, instantly quitted their arms.  The captain presently sent for me and Mr Cummins, to acquaint us with what had happened:  He told us the purser, accidentally coming by, saw the prisoner Rowland Crussett, marine, crawling from the bushes, and from under the store tent, and found on him upwards of a day’s flour for ninety souls, with one piece of beef under his coat, and three pieces more, which were concealed in the bushes, to carry off when an opportunity offered; and the sentry, Thomas Smith, his mess-mate, a marine, undoubtedly was privy to the robbery.  The captain farther said, We have nothing to do with them; but I shall send to Captain P——­n, to insist on a court-martial:  I really think that for robbing the store-tent (which, in our present circumstances, is starving the whole body of people) the prisoners deserve death.  This was not only the captain’s opinion, but indeed the sentiments of every person present.  After we parted from the captain, we were sent for by Captain P——­n:  He acquainted us, he would go as far as the martial law would allow him, and in conjunction with the sea-officers:  I look (said he) on the l——­t as nothing, and the c——­n in the same light:  As for you two, (meaning the gunner and carpenter) I confide in, and shall have regard to your opinions.  When the articles of war were read, we found their crime did not touch life, but they were to suffer corporal punishment.  Whilst Mr Cummins was laying open the nature of their guilt, and the ill consequence of lenity in the circumstances we were in, I proposed a way next to death, which was, if judged proper by Captain P——­n and Captain C——­p, to carry ’em off to an island where the ship parted, there being muscles, limpetts, and clams in abundance, and no want of water, and there to be left till we should be ready for sailing; and, to strike a terror in all for the future, that if any man should be guilty of the like offence, without any respect of person, he should share the same fate.  This proposal was approved of by both the captains.  At night Lieutenant B——­n surprised us with a new kind of proposal we little dreamt of,