found themſelves thirty Leagues to Leeward. The Current ſtill oppoſing their Endeavours, and perceiving no Hopes of beating up to their Ship, they came to an Anchor, and inconſiderately ſent away the Boat to give the reſt of the Company Notice of their Condition, and to order the Ship to them; but too ſoon, even the next Day, their Wants made them ſenſible of their Infatuation, for their Water was all expended, and they had taken no thought how they ſhould be ſupply’d, till either the Ship came, or the Boat returned, which was not likely to be under five or ſix Days. Here like Tantalus, they almoſt famiſhed in Sight of the freſh Streams and Lakes; being drove to ſuch Extremity at laſt, that they were forc’d to tare up the Floor of the Cabin, and patch up a ſort of Tub or Tray with Rope Yarns, to paddle aſhore, and fetch off immediate Supplies of Water to preſerve Life.
After ſome Days, the long-wiſh’d-for Boat came back, but with the moſt unwellcome News in the World, for Kennedy, who was Lieutenant, and left in Abſence of Roberts, to Command the Privateer and Prize, was gone off with both. This was Mortification with a Vengeance, and you may imagine, they did not depart without ſome hard Speeches from thoſe that were left, and had ſuffered by their Treachery: And that there need be no further mention of this Kennedy, I ſhall leave Captain Roberts, for a Page or two, with the Remains of his Crew, to vent their Wrath in a few Oaths and Execrations, and follow the other, whom we may reckon from that Time, as ſteering his Courſe towards Execution Dock.
Kennedy was now choſen Captain of the revolted Crew, but could not bring his Company to any determined Reſolution; ſome of them were for purſuing the old Game, but the greater Part of them ſeem’d to have Inclinations to turn from thoſe
