April 7–11 Friday – Captain Mouland of the Batavia visited Sam sometime between these dates. It was his second visit [MTL 5: 279n6]. In a letter of Apr. 26 to Colton Greene, a passenger on the Batavia during the rescue at sea, Sam described Mouland’s visit:

“The ‘old man’ has been down again & spent two days with me—he came fortified—brought 6 bottles of Scotch whiskey—& all he drank while here was two glasses” [MTL 5: 356].