The officers declared that
their roast pig was very tender, but that the flavor was strong and
peculiar! The ship's surgeon afterward said he never saw the bones of a
pig so resemble the bones of a dog. There had been but one pig aboard,
and had it been known that Terrence dined on roast pig also, there might
have been some grave suspicions.
Shortly after this event, there were some changes in the British navy.
Captain Snipes was supplanted in command of the _Macedonian_ by Captain
Carden. Fernando, Terrence and the negro were shortly after transferred
to the war-sloop _Sea Shell_, Captain Bones, while poor Sukey was still
left aboard the _Macedonian_. Shortly after these changes Captain Snipes
and Mr. Hugh St. Mark, the silent gunner, were transferred to the
man-of-war _Xenophon_. Thus we see, by those interminable and
inexplicable changes constantly going on in the royal navy the friends
were separated. There may be some reason for those constant changes in
the navy; but they are not apparent to the sagest landsman living.
Captain Conkerall had made himself so ridiculous in Baltimore, that he
had been forced to quit the service in order to escape he ridicule of
his fellow officers. This left Lieutenant Matson in command of the
_Xenophon_ until Captain Snipes was assigned to that duty.
Fernando Stevens felt some regrets in leaving the _Macedonian_.
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