We Then Fell To Work, Each Man Having A Six Gallon
Keg, In Which The Water Was Carried To The Top Of The Hill, Where It Was
Emptied Into The Hose.
We were thus employed four days, in which time
we filled twenty-six tons, which we carried on board.
The 31st January,
we all went to the plantain walk, where we cut down as many plantains as
we could carry, with which we returned on board our ship, meaning to set
sail next day.
This evening, two of the men who had agreed to remain with Captain
Dampier, left him and came over to us, so that our number was now
thirty-five, viz. thirty-four English, and a little negro boy we had
taken from the Spaniards. While we were employed in watering our bark,
the men on board the St George were busied in refitting that ship as
well as they could; the carpenter stopping up the shot-holes in the
powder-room with tallow and charcoal, not daring, as he said, to drive a
nail, for fear of making it worse. The four great guns, which usually
stood between decks, were put down into the hold, there being sixteen
besides, which was more than they now had men to manage, as there only
remained twenty-eight men and boys with Captain Dampier, who were mostly
landsmen, a very insignificant force indeed with which to make war on a
whole nation.
SECTION II.
Sequel of the Voyage of William Funnell, after his Separation from
Captain Dampier.
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