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piled that It was a fick man, who had been 

 long confined to his birth. His promptitude 

 was fuccefsful : fick men they did not want ; 

 and the failor was left undifturbed — his free- 

 dom the fruit of his well-timed ftratagem, and 

 of the expertnefs of the mate in promoting it. 



The fecond party came more openly^ and 

 without obferving the fame ftillnefs of ap- 

 proach, confequently all the failors who were 

 likely to fuit them, were fecreted before they 

 could reach the deck ; and from the mate re- 

 ceiving them frankly, and afTuring them that 

 they were too late in their vifit, in confe- 

 quence of their comrades having but jufl: pre- 

 ceded them, and taken away the greater part 

 of the (hip's company, they did not fubjedt the 

 veffel to fo minute and prying a fearch, but, 

 after looking generally round the fhip, went 

 quietly away without a man. 



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