They had frequent and violent quarrels among themselves, in one of which a harpooner, Jim Bonner, was thrown overboard.

The party of the mate was gaining ground.
Jim Bonner belonged to the cook's gang, of which Peters was a partisan.
July 5th.

About daybreak there came on a stiff breeze from the west, which at noon freshened into a gale, so that the brig could carry nothing more than her trysail and foresail.

In taking in the foretopsail, Simms, one of the common hands, and belonging also to the cook's gang, fell overboard, being very much in liquor, and was drowned--no attempt being made to save him.

The whole number of persons on board was now thirteen, to wit: Dirk Peters; Seymour, the black cook; Jones, Greely, Hartman Rogers and William Allen, all of the cook's party; the mate, whose name I never learned; Absalom Hicks, Wilson, John Hunty Richard Parker, of the mate's party;--besides Augustus and myself.
July 6th.