[The Eventful History Of The Mutiny And Piratical Seizure by Sir John Barrow]@TWC D-Link bookThe Eventful History Of The Mutiny And Piratical Seizure CHAPTER VIII 61/86
JOHN MILLS, gunner's mate } do. 5.WILLM.BROWN, botanist's assistant } do. 6.
MATTHEW QUINTAL, seaman, put to death by Young and Adams in self-defence. 7.
WILLIAM M'KOY, seaman, became insane, and killed by throwing himself from a rock. 8.
Mr.EDWAKD YOUNG, midshipman, died of asthma. 9.ALEX.SMITH, _alias_ John Adams, seaman, died in 1829. Young officers of the navy, as well as the common seamen, may also derive some useful lessons from the events of this history.
They will see the melancholy results of affording the least encouragement for seamen to depart from their strict line of duty, and to relax in that obedience to the orders of superiors, by which alone the discipline of the service can be preserved; they will learn how dangerous it is to show themselves careless and indifferent in executing those orders, by thus setting a bad example to the men.
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