The Narrator is Remanded to Custody
The narrator, unable to convince a court so prejudiced with spite and fortified with ignorance against truth, peacefully submits to being reconducted to his fellow-prisoner. Morgan receives the particulars of the trial and responds with silent anguish, lifting his hands and eyes to Heaven and uttering a dreadful groan. Fearing to speak his thoughts aloud lest the sentinel overhear, Morgan instead bursts forth into a Welsh song, accompanied by violent gestures and contortions of face, expressing the depth of his distress at the injustice their captors have inflicted.
第三十一章
This chapter recounts events following the narrator and Morgan’s wrongful confinement, including the exposure of surgeon Mackshane’s plot to suborn false testimony against them, their conditional release, the fleet’s voyage from Jamaica to Hispaniola to join the West India Squadron, its subsequent journey to Carthagena, and the widely criticized tactical choices made during the Carthagena campaign.
Discovery of Subornation via Evidence Quarrel
A quarrel breaks out between the two Greek witnesses who provided false testimony against the narrator and Morgan. One of the Greeks, seeking revenge against the other, reveals the full details of Mackshane’s plot to frame the pair, exposing the surgeon’s malicious scheme.
Persuading Morgan to Accept Conditional Freedom
After the subornation plot is exposed, the narrator and Morgan are set at liberty and ordered to return to their duties. The narrator eventually persuades the obstinate Morgan to accept this conditional freedom rather than insisting on a court-martial, by appealing to his desire to take personal revenge against Mackshane once they return to England.
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