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PREFACE. 



ticulars unnoticed, and others touched fo 

 fiightly, that they appear evidently to 

 have been put together with the purpofe 

 of juftifying thofe proceedings which 

 could not be confidered in any other light 

 than that of diredt mutiny. Accord- 

 ingly, we find that the main fubftance 

 of his Journal is employed in fcrutini- 

 zing the condu<5t of captain Cheap, and 

 fetting forth the conferences which 

 paffed between him and the feceders. 

 relative to the way and meafures they 

 were to take for their return home. I 

 have, therefore, taken fome pains to re- 

 view thofe early paffages of the unfor- 

 tunate fcene I am to reprefent, and to en- 

 ter into a detail, without which no found 

 judgment can be formed of any difputed 

 point, efpecially when it has been car- 

 ried fo far as to end in perfonal refent- 

 ment. When contefts and diffenfions 

 fhall be found to have gone that length, 

 it will be obvious to every reader, why a 



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