friends whom we found there, and entertained by them as well as
their condition would admit, until we could get in our
accommodations and provide for ourselves.

We had the liberty of the hall, which is on the first storey over
the gate, and which in the daytime is common to all the prisoners on
that side, felons as well as others, to walk in and to beg out of;
and we had also the liberty of some other rooms over that hall, to
walk or work in a-days. But in the night we all lodged in one room,
which was large and round, having in the middle of it a great pillar
of oaken timber, which bore up the chapel that is over it.

To this pillar we fastened our hammocks at the one end, and to the
opposite wall on the other end, quite round the room, and in three
degrees, or three storeys high, one over the other; so that they who
lay in the upper and middle row of hammocks were obliged to go to
bed first, because they were to climb up to the higher by getting
into the lower. And under the lower rank of hammocks, by the wall-
sides, were laid beds upon the floor, in which the sick and such
weak persons as could not get into the hammocks lay. And indeed,
though the room was large and pretty airy, yet the breath and steam
that came from so many bodies, of different ages, conditions, and
constitutions, packed up so close together, was enough to cause
sickness amongst us, and I believe did so. For there were many sick
and some very weak, though we were not long there, yet in that time
one of our fellow-prisoners, who lay in one of those pallet-beds,
died.

This caused some bustle in the house; for the body of the deceased
being laid out and put into a coffin, was carried down and set in