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ticulars unnoticed, and others touched fo 

 flightly, that they appear evidently to 

 have been put together with the purpofe 

 of juftifying thofe proceedings which 

 could not be confidered in any other light 

 than that of dired: mutiny. Accord- 

 ingly, we find that the main fubftance 

 of his Journal is employed in fcrutini- 

 zing the conduft of captain Cheap, and 

 fetting forth the conferences which 

 pafled between him and the feceders, 

 relative to the way and meafures they 

 were to take for their return home. I 

 have, therefore, taken fome pains to re- 

 view thofe early paflfages of the unfor- 

 tunate fcene I am to reprefent, and to en- 

 ter into a detail, without which no found 

 judgment can be formed of any difputed 

 point, efpecially when it has been car- 

 ried fo far as to end in perfonal refent- 

 ment. "When contefts and diflenfions 

 fiiall be found to have gone that length, 

 it >vill be obvious to every reader, why a 



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