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Second Guessing the Captain
Aubrey Ernst
5/1/07
A Voyage Round the World
Working the Waters
Thesis- Crew regularly second guessed the captain and officers because of inexperience, bad decisions and cruel actions.
BP 1
Inexperience
pg 46 “…I imparted my opinion to capt. Gray hinting I thought it best to hove too till we might get altitude of the sun and determin our latitude but capt. Gray supposing us to the southward… carried a pressing sail alongshore to the Northward… when we observed in Latd. 50°22’ this confirmed my conjectures beyond a doubt.”
BP 2
Bad decisions
Pg 11 “Every event now was imeterial little work was done the people encouraged to disobey the Command of the Offiserds and continually intoxicated with Licure delivered them by Capt.K. orders.”
Pg 76 “However deef our persuasions Captain Gray would not heav…”
BP 3
Cruel actions
Pg 51 “I concluded at first sight her people were in an advanced state of Scurvy…They had been so unfortunate as to loose two of there people with the Scurvy and most of the rest of the Crew were in an advanced state of that malignant Distemper…”
Pg 7 “…When Aged Gentleman came onboard he was ordered before the mast and his beding was refused him inconciquence of Which he was exposed to the inclemency of the Weather the whole night on deack…”