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376 THE LIFE OF 



" officer in Dutch cavalry, and what I had 

 reported was an infamous lie ; and he the faid 

 Minchin hoped the Governor would chaftifc 

 mc. Minchin took Semple's advice in every 

 thing,* and always kept him company. 

 " On the 23d September, 1797, we were 

 embarked on board fmall craft for Rio de Ja- 

 neiro. Semple, Mr. Black, and Michael 

 Richards, a boy, made intereft to go by land 

 " to St. Catharine's. We arrived at Rio dc 

 " Janeiro on the 23d of Oftober, fome time 

 '* after the above-mentioned people had reached 

 thatfettlement from St. Catharine's, on board 

 the Portuguefe men of war. Semple was on 

 board the Admiral's fhip, Signior Antoine 

 Janeiro's; Mr. Black on board a 64 gun fhip, 

 commanded by one Thompfon,-}- an Englifh- 

 man. On board the Admiral's fliip was an- 

 other Englifhman (named Philip Anvorn, a 



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* Neither Minchin nor Prater were hy companions t and had 

 eitber of them taken my advice during the mutiny, I have little 

 doubt of having faved the fliip ; and had they taken it when 

 they were in Brazil, they would have met with more refpe6l 

 than they received. 



+ Since the time o^ one ArnoU, I have not heard of even an 

 enemy being treated with fuch indecency. But to the truth 

 of the next bbfervation I readily and heartily fubfcribe j Mr. 

 Prater ■wasf»ce>eh ferry that I was treated with refpeftby the 

 moft diilinguiflied officers in the Portuguefe fervice. 



" Lieutenant 



