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CHAPTER IV. THE MUTINY AND AFTER.
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It must be confessed that during our stay in Demerara the fellows had a pretty good time of it. Since there were no stores on board of rope, paint, or canvas, the work was mainly confined to washing decks or scrubbing paintwork, a good deal of time also being wasted making sennit, i.e. plaiting rope-yarns for chafing-gear. What sailorizing was undertaken was in the nature of kill-time, and well understood as such by the men. Nevertheless they were by no means pleased with their easy times, for they had not yet been able to get any drink; their displeasure being heightened by the knowledge that the mate had been ashore2 and got a skinful. Any one versed3 in the ways of seamen4 should have known that mischief5 was brewing6, even though no definite plan of action had yet been discussed. It only wanted a bottle or two of rum to fire the magazine.
At last liberty day drew nigh. The cargo7 was all out, the ballast all in, no cargo being obtainable for the crazy old Arabella in Demerara. I do not now even know whether it be a legal enactment8 that seamen shall be allowed twenty-four hours' freedom in foreign ports, with some portion of the wages due to them to spend, but if not, the custom is so well established that it has all the force of law. The men were like schoolboys at breaking-up time, half crazy with delight at the thought of the joys (?) that awaited them ashore. They received but a few shillings each, much to their disgust, because there was as yet little wages due to them, and no amount of begging or bullying10 could avail to get them any more. The mate's watch went first, among them my stout11 friend Joe, whom I tearfully begged not to get drunk and kick up a row, for my sake. Looking back I wonder at my
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