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This gallant officer rcfufcd pofitively to receive 

 the money allowed by the Tribunal; but as it 

 was a prefent made in the name of the Queen, 

 and could not be returned., he ordered it to be 

 .paid to me. 



During our abode at Rio dc Janeiro.^ feveral 

 BritiHi Ihips bound to the South Seas came into 

 that port, when leave having been given to any 

 one of us to embark in any fliip in which we 

 could obtain a palTage, Mr. Murchifon, the 

 Mate, fufpcding that the convoy would be de- 

 layed long in Brazil, and have a long palTage 

 when it did fail, went on hoard oneof them ; and 

 about a month afterwards, when we were on the 

 point of going to fea, the Purfcr entered on 

 board another veffcl, alfo bound to the South 

 Seas. As I had with fomc trouble prevailed on 

 the mutineers to give that gentleman the fhip's 

 -charter, and every other paper which bethought 

 could be ufefui to the widow of the unfortunate 

 Captain, I endeavoured to perfuade him to re- 

 main with us, becaufe I thought his prefence in 

 England would be neceflary ; and to me it feem- 

 ed impoflible, that a fliip bound to tlie South 

 Seas could reach Europe before a convoy going 

 immediately thither. A young man (James 

 Macleod) who left Britain as a foldier in the 

 New South Wales Corps, but with his difcharge 

 in his pocket, a problem which I cannot explam, 

 and one of thp ladies bound to New South Wales^ 



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