help, help!”—A large Newfoundland dog on deck took the alarm, and began to bark and bay with all his might and main; I too awoke with the cry, and catching the alarm roared "murder, murder !"

When a light was procured, what a vision was revealed! men and women rolling out of their berths, some with petticoats, some with drawers, and some in a state of nature-children screaming-women wringing their hands, and commodities and utensils that are best out of sight, capering and triumphing, as if they had the instincts of life, like termagants in a passion.

After we had been two or three days at sea, and the passengers had got somewhat over the customary sickness, the captain called the roll of us all, and appointed every seventh man the head of a mess.

The duty of the mess-man was to receive from the mate provisions for a week for himself and six comrades. It fell to my lot to be a mess-man, being one of the seventh numbers, and in addition to receiving and serving the

rations, it was my duty to keep our pots and pans clean.

Among other articles we were allowed a pint of molasses per day; and it happened, after some days, that the mate neglected to serve out the molasses, by which much grumbling arose among the passengers. A meeting was held between decks, and I, [observe how things are brought to servitude and use]-having acquired some skill in the method of managing assemblies in the Society of the Friends of the People, was on this occasion chosen moderator, and "appointed to represent the grievance to the captain, which I did in a creditable manner next day on the quarter-desk. The mate was called on for an explanation, and gave as a reason the want of time, whereupon I said to the captain, if he would allow the mate to give me the quantity every morning I would serve it out to the different messes. This suggestion was adopted, and executed by me to the end of our voyage. But this was not the only mutiny that disturbed the orderliness of the ship.

Every person on board was allowed two porter-bottles of water every morning. One

bottle was to go into the ship's boiler to make our porridge; and from this, as we got into the warm latitudes, sprang the second mutiny. Many of the passengers, instead of depositing their allowance of water in the breakfast-kettle, reserved it for drinking, but when the porridge was dealing out, they also came in for their share thus it came to pass that for several mornings there was not enough made to supply the several messes. I soon found out the cause, and stated the difficulty to the captain, who authorised me to stand by the kettle to see that none received any of the porridge, but only those who had put in their bottles of water. This order I faithfully executed during the remainder of our passage, and finally my firmness and equity in the trust gained me the goodwill of all on board.

Among the passengers, were, of course, both odd and curious characters, and as the revolutionary fever was then raging on sea and land, our ship was a type of the world;-we had heads so hot, that all the waters of the Atlantic could not have cooled them; we had also men of diverse religions, and of no religion;

and it was not uncommon when the wind was fair, and the weather fine, to see an antiburgher minister, one of whom was on board, holding forth on the quarter-deck, and singing the old version of the psalms of David, and at the same time a batch of eight or ten universalists, chaunting the Winchester hymns on the forecastle. At last their controversies grew to such a pitch, that the captain was obliged to put a stop to their strivings, by declaring the Presbyterian religion to be the established religion of his ship.

The courteous reader will see by what has been related, that what with the business I had in hand by day, and what with the oppression of the dreadful Celt by night, I had no time to philosophise on the wonders of the deep. I trust he will likewise see a better thing-and that is, the extraordinary manner in which I was made an instrument to prevent misrule and mutiny in the ship, and to minister to the comfort of all on board.

CHAPTER VI.

The world was all before them where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.

I HAVE now to speak of the greatest event in my eventful history, being no less than of my arrival in New York, and of the great things which were done for me on that occasion. Hitherto, saving in the small matters rehearsed in the foregoing pages, I may say I had been but as a bird in the nest. For nearly thirteen years I had sat on my hunkers in the puddock hair under the wing of a kind parent, eating the worms and crumbs that Providence gave him, in the wherewithal with which he fed me. And though I was at last strengthened to an ability that enabled me to jump out upon the