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mafs — fome hard at work — fome curfing and 

 fwearing — fome reeling in drunkennefs — 

 fome fcrambling for a knapfack, or a firelock— 

 fome lofing their hats — fome hoifting baggage 

 up the fhip's fide — fomejumping on board — 

 fome hawling in provifions at the ftern — each 

 feeking individual or general accommodation 

 —and all adding to the common confufion. 



In the afternoon we were vifited by the 

 General, who came on board, to fee if every- 

 thing was embarked ready for failing in the 

 evening: but the time required for getting in the 

 guns and other heavy ftores, and the numerous 

 impediments occurring from fuch multitudes 

 of perfons crowding on board at the fame 

 moment, rendered this altogether impoffible — 

 however, by the great exertions which were 

 made, we were able to get under weigh at an 

 early hour the following morning. 



The Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the 

 regiment, the commanding officer of artillery, 

 and myfelf, are the only officers who have the 

 accommodation of feparate births : all the 

 others are obliged to be crowded together with- 

 out beds, or mattreffes, upon the naked decks of 



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