Furthermore, of those two hundred and ninety-two men, no less than one hundred and sixty-five had been aboard the _Colossus_, and had joined after being paid off from that craft; while, on the quarter-deck, the skipper, Mr Galway the second lieutenant, Mr Trimble the master, Maxwell the master's-mate, Gascoigne a midshipman, Mr Purvis the gunner, and myself had all been shipmates together in the same craft.
