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tage of it to put our rigging in order, by overhaulina^ and 

 tarring it, and painting the ship inside. As we had been 

 enabled to procure an abundance of small spars, planks, 

 timber, and nails, I set the carpenters to work, making many 

 repairs, which we had not heretofore been enabled to do for 

 the want of the necessary materials ; for although we had 

 had it in our power to supply ourselves at Valparaiso, I did 

 not procure them there, coniidently believing that the ene- 

 my would, in due time, furnish us with what we wanted. 



Doctor Miller, about this time, became dissatisfied with 

 his new situation on board the Barclay, and expressed a 

 desire to remove to the Policy, where the accommodations, 

 he had understood, were equal to those of the Barclay. 

 To this wish I assented ; as the captain of the Policy was 

 in very low health, I had been induced to let him remain 

 on board his ship. As he was a man of considerable loqua- 

 city, and some intelligence, I believed that the doctor 

 *Tould find himself agreeably situated, if it were possible to 

 make him so, as to comfort and society. 



