Just as he had arrived at the last extremity of distress his friend reached him.
Augustus added that discord reigned among the mutineers.

Some wanted to take the _Grampus_ towards the Cape Verde Islands; others, and Dirk Peters was of this number, were bent on sailing to the Pacific Isles.
Tiger was not mad.

He was only suffering from terrible thirst, and soon recovered when it was relieved.
The cargo of the _Grampus_ was so badly stowed away that Arthur Pym was in constant danger from the shifting of the bales, and Augustus, at all risks, helped him to remove to a corner of the 'tween decks.
The half-breed continued to be very friendly with the son of Captain Barnard, so that the latter began to consider whether the sailing-master might not be counted on in an attempt to regain possession of the ship.
They were just thirty days out from Nantucket when, on the 4th of July, an angry dispute arose among the mutineers about a little brig signalled in the offing, which some of them wanted to take and others would have allowed to escape.

In this quarrel a sailor belonging to the cook's party, to which Dirk Peters had attached himself, was mortally injured.

There were now only thirteen men on board, counting Arthur Pym.
Under these circumstances a terrible storm arose, and the _Grampus_ was mercilessly knocked about.