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nuated boatswain at Portsmouth ; * Ogilvie, a 

 Scotclmiaii, and formerly a mate of an East India- 

 man; tLarey, an Irishman; § Elliot, was born in 

 the Tower of London; * Carlton and II Cushen, 

 were the only native Americans I saw; the latter, 

 is descended from an opulent family of that name 

 at Boston, who w^ere principal owners of the ship, 

 and he was much of a gentleman in his behaviour: 

 the other, was fomierly a Marble-head fisherman, 

 and as great a villain as any this day unhung. 

 Just before they sailed, as I was begging a 

 few nails of Mr, Grimes, Carlton, who was. walk- 

 ing the quarterdeck, stopped short and said to 

 me, " G— d d — n you, sir, if I commanded this 

 ship, I would not leave you a rag by G— d; I 

 would carry off all I could; and what I could 

 not, I would burn; then if you, and those who 

 remain wdth you, could not eat those rocks (point- 

 ing to the shore) you might starve and be 

 d-d." 



Monday, August 31, 1778. We washed out the 

 remainder of the fish that w^as left in the stage. 

 Two of the men who went away in the skiff ap- 

 peared upon Slink Point this forenoon. I sent a 

 boat for them, and after dinner, had them landed 

 on the south-east side of the harbour, with orders 

 to return to North Harbour, where the other two 

 were, to haul the skiff up there, and then all to 

 come home; and they accordingly returned in the 

 evening. I then mustered my people, and found, 



* The sailing master. t Lieutenant of marines. § Surgeon- 



X First Lieutenant. 1 1 Third Lieutenant. 



