Five p.m.
After explaining that it was Hobson 's choice , I asked the men to draw matches , held in the hand of the first mate , to see who should be the lucky ones . They all decided to take a chance and go without it , with the exception of two seamen and the mates , who , learning that I had taken it , decided to follow suit . Accordingly I inoculated them with the antipest serum . Five p.m. -- Inoculated myself with Haffkine 's Fluid . Seven-thirty . -- Seaman Ross died . Mr. Matson threw the body overboard .