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“T trust whatever men are sent from Halifax may be selected 
for this particular service for I have not the power of keeping up that 
strict discipline and subordination which I could do on the Atlantic. 
I, therefore, must depend much on the good disposition of the seamen. 
The Marlboro’s have been guilty of every extravagance and given 
more trouble than all the establishment put together. There were also 
several blacks and American citizens among them, the latter of which 
I, of course, immediately discharged. 
“From the unavoidable exposure of the service in the gunboats 
at this season of the year, we have a great number sick, (nearly eighty), 
I therefore am certain, (to ensure success), we shall require 200 or 250 
additional seamen.”1 
He had then received reliable information that sixty-eight ship- 
wrights had recently been added to the navy yard at Sackett’s Har- 
bour to be employed in the construction of two forty-four gun frigates 
and that Chauncey had gone to Washington to confer with the Secre- 
tary of the Navy on his future operations. 
Calgary, May 2, 1916. 

1 Yeo to Warren, Kingston, Dec. 6, 1813. 
