put my chest and bedding on board a canoe
that lay alongside, and, having shook hands with my trusty friend the
sergeant, and honest Jack Rattlin, who was bound for Greenwich Hospital,
I took my leave of Morgan with many tears, after we had exchanged our
sleeve buttons as remembrances of each other. Having presented my new
warrant to the captain of the Lizard, I inquired for the doctor, whom
I no sooner saw than I recollected him to be one of those young fellows
with whom I had been committed to the round-house, during our frolic
with Jackson, as I have related before. He received me with a good deal
of courtesy, and, when I put him in mind of our former acquaintance,
expressed great joy at seeing me again, and recommended me to an
exceeding good mess, composed of the gunner and master's mate. As there
was not one sick person in the ship, I got leave to go ashore next day
with the gunner, who recommended me to a Jew, that bought my ticket at
the rate of forty per cent discount; and, having furnished myself with
the necessaries I wanted, returned on board in the evening, and, to my
surprise, found my old antagonist Crampley walking upon deck. Though
I did not fear his enmity, I was shocked at his appearance, and
communicated my sentiments on that subject to Mr. Tomlins the surgeon,
who told me that Crampley, by dint of some friends about the admiral,
had procured a commission, constituting him lieutenant on board the
Lizard; and advised me, now he was my superior officer, to behave with
some respect towards him, or else he would find a thousand opportunities
of using me ill. This advice was a bitter potion to me, whom pride and
resentment had rendered utterly incapable of the least submission to,
or even of a reconciliation with, the wretch who had, on many occasions,
treated me so inhumanly: however, I resolved to have as little
connection as possible with him, and to ingratiate myself as much as I
could with the rest of the officers, whose friendship might be a bulwark
to defend me from the attempts of his malice.

In less than a week we sailed on a cruise, and having weathered the east
end of the island, had the good fortune to take a Spanish barcolongo,
with her prize, which was an English ship bound for Bristol, that sailed
from Jamaica a fortnight before, without convoy. All the prisoners who
were well, we put onshore on the north side of the island; the prizes
were manned with Englishmen, and the command of the ba