in this unhappy condition, bemoaning our hapless fate, until we supposed it to be past mid|night, and could not conceive the reason that the watch was not relieved, as is customary a|mong Americans and English. And being strangers to their manner of relieving the watch, supposed we had (innocently) neglected our du|ty; this made us very uneasy, fearing the watch had been relieved, and we not knowing it, they would inflict some corporal punishment, I then proposed to my fellow sufferers, that I would go on deck, in order to know whether they had called the watch or not; but they ad|vised me not to go, adding, that if the watch was not called, they might treat me very ill for appearing on deck in the night, when my duty did not call me there, we then determi|ned to wait 'till we were called, and to bear patiently our punishment if they inflicted any. We waited in this suspence for near an hour longer, when I resolved to go on deck by my|self, and know the issue: With this resolution, I crept upon my hands and knees to the sail room door, and on my appearance at the door, a Turk came to me, armed with a Scymitar & a pair of Pistols, and made me to understand by signs, that he wanted to know where I was going, I answered him in the same manner, made him understand that necessity called me on deck. He then conducted me to the hatchway, and spoke to some person on the deck, in his own language, which I could not understand, and pointing with his singer, I found that I had 0