About four o'clock
roared the mate . But the sailors fell back , murmuring something about merchant seamen having no pensions in case of being maimed , and they had not shipped to fight fifty to one . Further efforts were made by the mate , who at last had recourse to entreaty ; but it would not do ; and we were obliged to depart , without achieving our object . About four o'clock that morning , the first four died . They were all men ; and the scenes which ensued were frantic in the extreme . Certainly , the bottomless profound of the sea , over which we were sailing , concealed nothing more frightful . Orders were at once passed to bury the dead .