Commanded and drilled the guns. Gave the captain's orders. Commanded cutting-out expeditions and boarding parties, when they came about. Stood watch, looked after the crew. Once, we took over a fort in Samana Bay. Captured three Spanish ships without shedding a drop of blood.

[Dodged the captain, helped start a mutiny, watched a dear friend get beaten half to death, abandoned the corpses of thirty-three deserters to the crabs, picked up the pieces while the incompetent first lieutenant bumbled all about the place, got shot and killed...]