you before that I do not care which way I go, southward or northward?  I will take my fate with you.  Everybody now expected the lieutenant to reply, especially after the zeal he express’d himself with the day before; but he sat speechless, without any regard to the welfare of the people, or to his own proposals.  Finding he did not move in the affair, I took out the paper which was agreed to by the lieutenant and the rest of the officers, and read it to the captain, and ask’d him to sign it, which he strenuously oppos’d, and seem’d very much enrag’d that it should be propos’d to him.  Upon this we dropt the matter, and began to discourse concerning the provisions:  We thought it necessary that ten weeks subsistence should be secur’d to carry with us, and that the liquor should be buried under ground, but he gave us no answer.  Finding no relief here, we went to Captain P——­n’s tent to consult with him what we should do in the present exigence.  On our coming out from the captain we saw a flag hoisted on Captain P——­n’s tent, the captain himself seated in a chair, surrounded by the people.  On seeing this, all the officers present at the consultation, except the lieutenant, went over to Captain P——­n.  Here it was agreed, in case the captain persisted to refuse signing the paper, to take the command from him, and to give it the lieutenant, according to the lieutenant’s own proposal.  At the same time Caplain P——­n told the people he would stand by ’em with his life, in going through the Streights of Magellan, the way propos’d in the paper.  The people gave three cheers, crying aloud for England.  The captain hearing the noise, got out of bed to his tent door, and call’d the people, enquiring what they wanted, then sent for all the officers:  He was then told since he refused signing the paper, and had no regard to the safety of our provisions, the people unanimously agreed to take the command from him, and transfer it to the lieutenant.  Hearing this, with an exalted voice, Captain C——­p says, Who is he that will take the command from me? addressing himself to the lieutenant, Is it you, sir?  The lieutenant reply’d, No, sir.  The terror of the captain’s aspect intimidated the lieutenant to that degree, that he look’d like a ghost.  We left him with the captain, and return’d to Captain P——­n’s tent, to acquaint him of the lieutenant’s refusing the command.  We had not been long here before Captain C——­p sent for us.  I was the first person call’d for; at my entering his tent, I saw him seated on a chest, with a cock’d pistol on his right thigh; observing this, I desir’d Mr J——­s, who was the mate he always rely’d on for navigation, to tell the captain I did not think proper to come before a cock’d pistol:  Notwithstanding I was arm’d I drew back, altho’ I had my pistol-cock’d, and there were several men near me arm’d with muskets.  The captain’s personal bravery no man doubted of, his courage was excessive, and made him rash and desperate; his shooting