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tent, which the people belonging to it 

 had taken fome pains to make fnug and 

 convenient, and lined with bales of 

 broad cloth driven from the wreck. 

 Eighteen of the ftouteft fellows of 

 the fhip's company had pofTeffion of 

 this tent, from whence were difpatch- 

 ed committees to the captain, with 

 the refolutions they had taken with 

 regard to their departure ; but oft- 

 ener for liquor. Their determination 

 was to go in the long-boat to the fouth- 

 ward, by the Streights of Magellan ; and 

 the point they were labouring, was to 

 prevail upon the captain to accompany 

 them. But though he had fixed upon a 

 quite different plan, which was to go to 

 the northward, yet he thought it politic, 

 at prefent, feemingly to acquiefce with 

 them, in order to keep them quiet. 

 When they began to ftipulate with him, 

 that he fliould be under fome reftric- 

 tions in point of command, and fhould 



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