messmate in a sentence

First, Heywood pleaded his " extreme youth and inexperience " as the cause of his failure to join Bligh and the loyalists in the open boat, insisting that " . . . I was influenced in my Conduct by the Example of my Messmates, Mr . Hallet and Mr . Hayward . . . the latter, tho'he had been many years at Sea, yet, when Christian ordered him into the Boat he was . . . so much overcome by the harsh Command, that he actually shed tears . " Heywood then cited a different reason for staying aboard " Bounty " : Bligh's launch was overloaded, and its destruction would be assured " by the least addition to their Number ".

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