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pocket-book and money into my poffeffion, 

 and to fee that his property was difpofed of* 

 after his death, as he had dire&ed. Never 

 perhaps was witnefTed a more • interefting, or 

 more affli&ing fcene ! You wiil form to your* 

 felf the beft reprefentation of it by placing 

 before your imagination a dead corpfe, and 

 fancying its pale lips to move, while its funk 

 flattened eye turns, feebly, towards you. 



But I do not wholly defpair of his re* 

 covery. Being now placed in an eafy and 

 fettled pofition, with the fhip quietly at an* 

 chor, I am not without the hope that the 

 bleeding and vomiting may ceafe, in which 

 cafe he might probably be recovered from the 

 extreme debility occafioned by the great quan- 

 tity of blood already loft* 



