Q. Did you live with them aft, afterwards?
A. No: I lived in the forecastle, but all on board eat in the cabin.
Q. Name all the persons you left on the Island, where you cut the cable of the ship and escaped.
A. Silas Payne, John Oliver, (being the principal mutineers next to Samuel B. Comstock,) Thomas Lilliston, Rowland Coffin, William Lay, Cyrus M. Hussey, Columbus Worth, Rowland Jones, and the Sandwich Island native, called Joseph Brown. The last five I believe ignorant of any knowledge of the intent to murder.
Q. What became of Samuel B. Comstock, who was the head mutineer after he landed upon the Island?
A. He was shot on the morning of the 17th Feb. by Silas Payne, and John Oliver, his associates in all the mutiny and murderous course they had pursued, and buried five feet deep on the beach near their tent; a chapter was read from the bible by me, acting under the orders of Payne, and muskets were fired by his orders, by the men.
Q. Why did they murder Comstock?
A. For giving away to the natives clothes and other articles before they were divided.
Q. Were the natives friendly and quiet?
A. Yes; very peaceable, gave away any thing they had; bread fruit, cocoanuts and other things.