The commander said that I must make certain concessions to the officer, which I felt as humiliating; that good discipline required this, and that unless I did so, he would be reluctantly compelled to order me to the gangway.

Thus far I had avoided punishment by a strict obedience to duty.

No lash had ever touched me.

That degradation I felt would be my ruin; and in fear of the result I bore much, rather than give any petty officer the power to have me punished.

'Let me sleep over it, Captain,' said I, so earnestly, that my request was granted.
"Troubled dreams haunted me as I lay in my hammock that night.