noon
The party of the mate was gaining ground . Jim Bonner belonged to the cook 's gang , of which Peters was a partisan . July 5th . About daybreak there came on a stiff breeze from the west , which at noon freshened into a gale , so that the brig could carry nothing more than her trysail and foresail . In taking in the foretopsail , Simms , one of the common hands , and belonging also to the cook 's gang , fell overboard , being very much in liquor , and was drowned -- no attempt being made to save him . The whole number of persons on board was now thirteen , to wit : Dirk Peters ; Seymour , the black cook ; Jones , Greely , Hartman Rogers and William Allen , all of the cook 's party ; the mate , whose name I never learned ; Absalom Hicks , Wilson , John Hunty Richard Parker , of the mate 's party ; -- besides Augustus and myself . July 6th .