The just vengeance of heaven exemplified in a journal lately found by Captain Mawson (Commander of the ship Compton) on the Island of Ascension as he was homeward bound from India : in which is a full and exact relation of the author's being set on shore there (by order of the Commodore and Captains of the Dutch fleet) for a most enormous crime he had been guilty of, and the extreme and unparalleled hardships, sufferings and misery he endured from the time of his being left there to that of his death ; all wrote with his own hand and found lying near the skeleton.