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The Court: Do you think this in any way excuses him for taking part in a mutiny?

Cole: No, sir, but....

“That will do, Boatswain,” Lord Hood interrupted. “Are there any further questions from the prisoners?”

Morrison: Do you recollect, when I came on deck after you had called me out of my hammock, that I came to you abaft the windlass and said, ‘Mr. Cole, what is to be done?’ and that your answer was, ‘By God, James, I do not know, but go and help them with the cutter?’

Cole: Yes, I do remember it.

Morrison: Do you remember that, in consequence of your order, I went about clearing the cutter? And afterward the launch, when Mr. Christian ordered that boat to be hoisted out instead of the cutter?

Cole: Yes.

Morrison: Do you remember that I brought a towline and grapnel out of the main hold and put them into the launch? And do you remember calling me to assist you to hoist a cask of water out of the hold, and at the same time threatening John Norton, the quartermaster, that he should not go in the boat if he was not more attentive in getting things into her?