I directly discovered that it was the same man with whom I had conversed on board the ship in the wet docks.

I heard him distinctly relate many of the particulars of the murder, and acknowledge them all.

Ormond, after having talked with him some time, said, "Well, then, you believe Peter Green was actually murdered ?" He replied, "If Peter Green was not murdered, no man ever was." What followed I do not know.

I had heard quite enough; and the room was so disagreeable in smell, that I did not choose to stay in it longer than was absolutely necessary.
I own I was now quite satisfied that the murder had taken place, and my first thought was to bring the matter before the mayor, and to take up three of the officers of the ship.

But, in mentioning my intention to my friends, I was dissuaded from it.