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Updated: June 18, 2025
My convalescence Julius Caesar befriends me We pass the Cape de Verde Islands Our hopes of a change of diet disappear My turn at last A severe discipline Captain Longfleet "Please, sir, I couldn't help it" "There goes the baby and his nurse" Caesar's sympathy How I owed my life to Tom Trivett Bad food "It makes me sick to cook it" The deputation to the captain The discontent increases among the crew Crossing the line "What ship is that?"
But we must abide by it till the ship gets into harbour, and then we suppose that the captain will be getting good stores aboard and will serve out fresh meat and vegetables." "Oh! Of course he'll do that," said Mr Simmons, pleased, as he thought, at having brought the men to reason. "You know Captain Longfleet is a just man, though he's a determined one, and won't stand nonsense.
This was nuts to the crew, who must have perceived that if there was division aft they had a good chance of succeeding in their project. Next morning, at daybreak, the hands were turned up to get the ship under weigh. Directly after, Mr McDonald and the other gentlemen came on deck. "We protest against this proceeding, Captain Longfleet," he exclaimed.
We soon found, from hearing them speak, that they were Scotch, and of this I had no doubt when I learned their names, which were McTavish, McDonald, McKay, and Fraser. Their vessel had been wrecked off Cape Frio, and notwithstanding the character borne by Captain Longfleet, they were glad to have an opportunity of continuing their voyage in the "Emu."
The first thing Tom did was to bring me a mug of water, which I eagerly drank. After that the captain ordered that I should be carried to a spare berth in the cabin. "We must have him there, that he may be properly looked after. He'll be better off than in the forepeak," he said. From this I guessed that he was a kind-hearted man, very different to Captain Longfleet.
"All right, Captain Longfleet; with your leave my wife and I will pay you a visit and bring some of our children and attendants, and if you have any youngsters who have not crossed the line before, we shall have a word to say to them." "You're welcome, Father Neptune, for I suppose no one else would be desirous of giving me a call out in these seas."
We'll keel-haul him next, if that doesn't bring him into order." Here the passengers interfered. Mr McTavish declared that he would not stand by and let me be unjustly punished. "If it were not for young Cheveley, where should we be by this time, Captain Longfleet?" he asked. "You know as well as we do what was intended. If your mate attempts to touch him, he must take the consequences."
"I axes you, Captain Longfleet, whether you think this ere stuff is fit food for British seamen?" said the boatswain, holding up a piece of the pork at the end of a two-pronged fork. "It makes um sick to cook it," said Caesar, who was standing behind the rest.
However, I persevered, and turning to Mr McTavish, asked him kindly to say a word for me. Captain Longfleet in reply told him that he had no business to interfere. "I've lost one boy through you gentlemen, and I'm not going to lose another," he answered. In vain Mr McDonald and the other gentlemen spoke to him; he replied in his usual rough way.
Mr McDonald replied, that we had waited for him, and that he had not appeared; but they expected that he would turn up on the beach on the following morning; if not, they proposed going in search of him. "There won't be time for that," said Captain Longfleet. "We have got all the water we require on board to-night.
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