All in the forecastle presently signified their intention of submitting, and, ascending one by one, were pinioned and then thrown on their backs, together with the first six--there being in all, of the crew who were not concerned in the mutiny, twenty-seven.
A scene of the most horrible butchery ensued.

The bound seamen were dragged to the gangway.

Here the cook stood with an axe, striking each victim on the head as he was forced over the side of the vessel by the other mutineers.

In this manner twenty-two perished, and Augustus had given himself up for lost, expecting every moment his own turn to come next.

But it seemed that the villains were now either weary, or in some measure disgusted with their bloody labour; for the four remaining prisoners, together with my friend, who had been thrown on the deck with the rest, were respited while the mate sent below for rum, and the whole murderous party held a drunken carouse, which lasted until sunset.