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and kept in my own custody, till the intentions of 

 the Board, with regard to the publication of the 

 history of the voyage, were fulfilled ; after which, 

 they should faithfully be restored back to them. 



It is with the greatest satisfaction I can relate, 

 that my proposals met with the approbation and the 

 cheerful compliance both of the officers and men ; 

 and I am persuaded, that every scrap of paper, con- 

 taining any transactions relating to the voyage, were 

 given up. Indeed it is doing bare justice to the 

 seaman of this ship to declare, that they were the 

 most obedient, and the best disposed men I ever 

 knew, though almost all of them were very young, and 

 had never before served in a ship of war. 



