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Updated: May 17, 2025
It was an impressive discourse, and the missionary himself had often cause to think of it afterwards. The dinner-time was soon over, and the labourers hastened back to their work, and the missionary returned to the world above. Kempson had been pecking away for some time, when Bill Hagger, who was next to him, ceased working. "I want my blow of baccy," he said, coming up to Samuel.
When we came to look at our watches, we found that we had dished up the enemy in just fifty minutes from the time the first shot had been fired at her until her flag was hauled down. "Pretty quick work," said Dick Hagger to me as we were working together repairing the rigging. "I told you the captain would be sharp about it; he always is at all he undertakes."
Hunting about, I found Dick Hagger, and he agreed with me that we should try to get on deck; but the ladders being unshipped, we had no means of doing so, and several of the men, seeing what we were about, swore that they would cut us down if we made the attempt. There were several others who also wished to escape, and observing what we had been trying to do, came and joined us.
I remember, however, laughing as I thought, if my right leg were to be shot away, how Uncle Kelson and I should go stumping about Southsea Common together, he had lost his left leg, now our heads almost knocking against each other, now going off at tangents. I pictured to myself the curious figure we should cut. Hagger thought, as he looked at me, that I had gone daft.
Still, what those plans were I could not tell, or I ought, I considered, to go aft and tell the first lieutenant. If I went now, he would think that I had got hold of some cock-and-bull story, and very likely take no notice, while, should the mutineers suspect me, I might have been knocked on the head and have been hove overboard by them in revenge. I told Hagger, however, what I feared.
"You and I haven't had much talk together, but I have heard of you from Hagger and others, and seen what a prime seaman you are." "I'm much obliged to you, Pratt," I answered, for that was his name, "but I am not over fond of spirits, and never take a glass except when they are served out, and even then I had as soon, on most occasions, go without it as have it."
"She may be the Venus, or she may be an enemy which has captured her, and is now coming on to fight us," I observed to Dick Hagger. He laughed heartily. "No, no, Will," he answered. "Depend upon it, the Venus, if she is taken, which I don't believe, would have too much knocked about an enemy to leave her any stomach for fighting another English ship."
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