By God sir if you offer'd to tuch [touch] me I would cut you down — I said sir this is a very wrong time to talk of fighting — Captn Bligh said that man pointing at the carpenter — told me that he was as good a man as I am — the carpenter made answer when you calld me a scoundrel — I told you that I was not but as good a man as you in that respect and you said that you had brought us here I told you — that had it not been for you we should not have been here — well then Captn Bligh said, if you had not any meaning in what you — I ask your pardon and the matter ended this [?] happen in consequence of Captn