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MAJOR SEMfLE LiSLE. 377 



Lieutenant in our fervice, but rank of Major* 

 ** General in the Portuguefe fervice) who, I 

 " am forry to fay, paid every attention to 

 Semple, fupplying him with cafli, and in- 

 troducing him to the firft company in Rio 

 de Janeiro. Although I had applied to him 

 in perfon for afllftance, and to ufe his intereft: 



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*' for us to be better treated than what we were, 



** he, knowing our lituation, many days with- 

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out fubfiflence, adually in a ftate of ftarva- 

 tion, the allowance from the Viceroy being 

 only twelve venteens, fterling about i^^d, 

 per day, for fifty days ; and that was adlually 

 (lopped from all of us for four or five days, 

 except Drummond, without our having a 

 " morfel of bread to eat. 



" On the 23d of January, 179S, we were em- 

 " barked on board the different Brazil mer- 

 ** chantmen, for St. Salvadore's and Lifbon, 

 " and arrived at St. Salvadore's the 5th of 

 April ; being very ill treated on board the 

 merchantmen, having nothing to eat but 

 (linking fait beef, cafade root, and horfe 

 " beans. We reprefented our ill treatment to 

 " Francifco Paulo de Lait, Admiral, and com- 

 " manding our convoy, who took no notice of 

 " it. We (laid at St. Salvadore's two months, 

 receiving no fubfiflence either from the Go- 

 ^* vernor or Commodore. On board the (hip 



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