OUR DESTINATION CHANGED IT was not long after the death of the two men, that Captain Guy was reported as fast declining, and in a day or two more, as dying.

The doctor, who previously had refused to enter the cabin upon any consideration, now relented, and paid his old enemy a professional visit.
He prescribed a warm bath, which was thus prepared.

The skylight being removed, a cask was lowered down into the cabin, and then filled with buckets of water from the ship's coppers.

The cries of the patient, when dipped into his rude bath, were most painful to hear.

They at last laid him on the transom, more dead than alive.
That evening, the mate was perfectly sober, and coming forward to the windlass, where we were lounging, summoned aft the doctor, myself, and two or three others of his favourites; when, in the presence of Bembo the Mowree, he spoke to us thus: "I have something to say to ye, men.