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liiit of their taking fupernumeraries 

 aboard, were now no lefs ftrenuous for 

 his enlargement, and being left to his 

 option of flaying behind. Therefore, 

 after having diftributed their fliare in 

 the referved ftock of provifion, which 

 was very fmall, we departed, leaving 

 captain Cheap, Mr. Hamilton of the ma- 

 rines, and the furgeon, upon the ifland. 

 I had all along been in the dark as to 

 the turn this affair would take ; and not 

 in the leaft fufpedting but that it was 

 determined captain Cheap fhould be 

 taken with us, readily embarked under 

 that perfuafion ; but when I found that 

 this defign, which was fo ferioufly car- 

 ried on to the lafl, was fuddenly dropped, 

 J was determined, upon the firft opportu- 

 nity, to leave them ; which was at this 

 inftant impoffible for me to do, the long- 

 boat lying iome diftance off fhore, at an- 

 chor. We were in all eighty-one, when 



e left the ifland, diftributed into the 



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