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1779- It is with the greatefl: fatisfaction I can relate, that my 



propofals met with the approbation, and the cheerful com- 

 pliance both of the officers and men ; and I am perfuaded, 

 that every fcrap of paper, containing any t ran factions re- 

 lating to the voyage, were given up. Indeed it is doing 

 bare juftice to the feamen of this fhip to declare, that they 

 were the mod obedient, and the belt difpofed men I ever 

 knew, though almoft all of them were very young, and had 

 never before ferved in a fhip of war. 



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