"Where did you get the rum?"
"In the hold," stammered he.
"Did the men agree to join you in this mutiny?"
"No, no! We did not ask them to join us."
"Who got up this plot?"
"Martino and myself; but we didn't ask any of your men to help us."
"Why did you give them rum, then?"
"To get them drunk, so that we could handle them."
"How did you get the rum?"
"I went down the fore scuttle, and then down the main hatch into the hold. I helped load the bark, and I knew where the rum was."