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equipped, and provisioned for ten days, we quitted the 

 ship with the same force as before, comprising five boats, 

 four guns, three rocket frames, with seventy-two men 

 and officers ; and, having some doubt as to our recep- 

 tion in this river, the addition of the prahu, a fleet boat, 

 and well armed, were important as well as imposing 



