`` It 's to you , Abraham Gray -- it 's to you I am speaking . '' Still no reply . `` Gray , '' resumed Mr. Smollett , a little louder , `` I am leaving this ship , and I order you to follow your captain . I know you are a good man at bottom , and I dare say not one of the lot of you 's as bad as he makes out . I have my watch here in my hand ; I give you thirty seconds to join me in . '' There was a pause . `` Come , my fine fellow , '' continued the captain ; `` do n't hang so long in stays . I 'm risking my life and the lives of these good gentlemen every second . '' There was a sudden scuffle , a sound of blows , and out burst Abraham Gray with a knife cut on the side of the cheek , and came running to the captain like a dog to the whistle . `` I 'm with you , sir , '' said he . And the next moment he and the captain had dropped aboard of us , and we had shoved off and given way . We were clear out of the ship , but not yet ashore in our stockade . 17 Narrative Continued by the Doctor : The Jolly-boat 's Last Trip THIS fifth trip was quite different from any of the others . In the first place , the little gallipot of a boat that we were in was gravely overloaded . Five grown men , and three of them -- Trelawney , Redruth , and the captain -- over six feet high , was already more than she was meant to carry . Add to that the powder , pork , and bread-bags . The gunwale was lipping astern . Several times we shipped a little water , and my breeches and the tails of my coat were all soaking wet before we had gone a hundred yards . The captain made us trim the boat , and we got her to lie a little more evenly . All the same , we were afraid to breathe .
In the XXXXX place , the ebb was now making -- a strong rippling current running westward through the basin , and then south ` ard and seaward down the straits by which we had entered in the morning .
Doctor Gray Jolly-boat Redruth Trelawney astern fifth gallipot second seconds