me and the rest of the officers.  When the money was paid, we acquainted the consul, that we had, till now, been separated from the boatswain, that he was of so perverse and turbulent a temper, and so abusive in speech, that we could not bear with him.  The boatswain then chose to be with the people, and gave us the preference of the fore-room, where we desir’d to be by ourselves.  There were two doors to our room, we lock’d both of them, and went to take a walk in the country:  At our return, in the evening, we found the doors broke open, and a small sword belonging to me was broke an inch off the point, and the scabbard all in pieces.  The boatswain had in his room an Irishman, whom he sent in on purpose to quarrel with us.  This Irishman and Richard East, one of our own people, fell upon the cooper and me:  East chose to engage with me, he struck me several times, he compelled me to stand in my own defence, and I soon master’d him.  During this quarrel the carpenter call’d the guards, at the sight of whom the Irishman made his escape.  I desir’d the guards to secure East a prisoner, but the officer told me he could not, unless I would go to prison with him.  I told him it was my desire, and accordingly I went.  The prison was in the governor’s house.  I had not been there but a few minutes before the governor sent for me; he enquir’d of the officer concerning the disturbance, and order’d me to my habitation, but detain’d East a prisoner.  When I came home I found the boatswain and two renegadoes with him, all about the cooper.  On seeing me, he repeated his former abusive words.  He made us so uneasy in our lodging, that, to prevent murder, we were obliged to lie out of the house.  Next morning Mr Oakley and Mr Cummins went to the consul; he came with them to the house, where we were all sent for; he told us it was very strange that people who had undergone so many hardships and difficulties could not agree lovingly together.  We answer’d, we never used to mess together, and sooner than we would be with the boatswain, we would make it our choice to take a house in the country at our own expence.  The boatswain, on hearing this, fell again into his usual strain of slander and abusive language, calling us rogues, villains, and pirates.  It was the governor’s first request that we might have no disturbance among us, yet the boatswain hath not suffer’d us to have a quiet minute since we have been here.  The consul went with us two miles out of the city, at a fishing village, where we took a house at our own expence, to pay at the rate of ten shillings per month, there being seven of us in all, viz. myself, the carpenter, surgeon, the two mates, the cooper, and a seaman.  Here we thought ourselves safe and secure.  The next day, in the afternoon, two of the boatswain’s friends, which had lately deserted from his majesty’s service, and an Irish clerk with them, came to pay us a visit.  They were so impertinent, as not only to enquire into the reasons of the disturbance