A MAN-OF-WAR'S-MAN SHOT AT.
There was a seaman belonging to the fore-top--a mess-mate, though
not a top-mate of mine, and no favourite of the Captain's,--who,
for certain venial transgressions, had been prohibited from going
ashore on liberty when the ship's company went. Enraged at the
deprivation--for he had not touched earth in upward of a year--
he, some nights after, lowered himself overboard, with the view
of gaining a canoe, attached by a robe to a Dutch galiot some
cables'-lengths distant. In this canoe he proposed paddling
himself ashore. Not being a very expert swimmer, the commotion he
made in the water attracted the ear of the sentry on that side of
the ship, who, turning about in his walk, perceived the faint
white spot where the fugitive was swimming in the frigat
