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take in the General's message, for that he would 

 certainly never demand a Danish seaman from me, 

 who had committed no other crime than preferring 

 the service of the English to that of the Dutch. I 

 added, however, to convince him of my sincere de- 

 sire to avoid disputes, that if the man was a Dane he 

 should be delivered up as a courtsey, though he 

 could not be demanded as a right; but that, if I found 

 he was an English subject, I would keep him at all 

 events. Upon these terms we parted, and soon after 

 I received a letter from Mr. Hicks, containing in- 

 dubitable proof that the seaman in question was a 

 subject of his Britannic Majesty. This letter I imme- 

 diately carried to the Shebander, with a request that 

 it might be shewn to the Governor, and that his 

 Excellency might at the same time be told I would 

 not upon any terms part with the man. This had the 

 desired effect, and I heard no more of the affair. 



In the evening, I went on board, accompanied by 

 Mr. Banks, and the rest of the gentlemen who had 

 constantly resided on shore, and who, though better, 

 were not yet perfectly recovered. 



At six in the morning of the 26th, we weighed 

 and set sail, with a light breeze at S. W. The Elgin 

 Indiaman saluted us with three cheers and thirteen 

 guns, and the garrison with fourteen, both which, 

 with the help of our swivels, we returned, and soon 

 after the sea-breeze set in at N. by W., which obliged 

 us to anchor just without the ships in the Road. 



At this time the number of sick on board amounted 

 to forty, and the rest of the ship's company were in 

 a very feeble condition. Every individual had been 

 sick except the sail-maker, an old man between 

 seventy and eighty years of age, and it is very re- 

 markable that this old man, during our stay at this 

 place, was constantly drunk every day : we had buried 

 seven, the surgeon, three seamen, Mr. Green's ser- 

 vant, Tupia, and Tayeto his boy. All but Tupia 



