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I did not ask him to give evidence that we were suffering from the effects of poison.
All hands were vomiting early in the morning of the 20th except the Captain whom I did not see vomit. I had been drinking the day before and my stomach rejected what I had drunk; it was like black paint.
The revolver was the Captain's; the make of the cartridges was the same, but the cartridge that produced the wound was a little larger than the Captain's.
I do not know that they could be fired quite uselessly by pressure. I made no effort to get out of the way; it was so sudden.