incommodiousness of the place wherein he was kept may have
occasioned his death? Therefore show us," said he, "the place
wherein this man died."

This much displeased the keepers, and they began to banter the old
man, thinking to have beaten him off it. But he stood up tightly to
them: "Come come," said he, "though you have made a fool of me in
bringing me in hither, ye shall not find a child of me now I am
here. Mistake not yourselves: I understand my place and your duty;
and I require you to conduct me and my brethren to the place where
this man died: refuse it at your peril."

They now wished they had let the old man go about his business,
rather than by troubling him have brought this trouble on
themselves. But when they saw he persisted in his resolution and
was peremptory, the coroner told them they must go show him the
place.

It was in the evening when they began this work, and by this time it
was grown bedtime with us, so that we had taken down our hammocks,
which in the day were hung up by the walls, and had made them ready
to go into, and were undressing ourselves in readiness to go into
them; when on a sudden we heard a great noise of tongues and of
trampling of feet coming up towards us. And by and by one of the
turnkeys, opening our door, said: "Hold, hold; do not undress
yourselves: here is the coroner's inquest coming to see you."

As soon as they were come to the door, for within the door there was
scarce room for them to come, the foreman, who led them, lifting up
his hand, said: "Lord bless me! what a sight is here! I did not