More description in the store, better for Google search All officers, both forward and aft, maintained a wide-awake watch throughout the night, particularly at the forecastle scuttle and fore hatchway, where it was thought that the insurgents may break through the bulkhead below and exit.
“At sunrise the Captain went forward, and knocking on the deck, summoned the prisoners to work; but with a yell they refused. behind lowering water to them and throwing a few handfuls of biscuits behind it, the captain turned the key back on them and put it in his pocket before heading back to the quarter-deck.
