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a box for England — giving instructions to my brother 
H., who was to stay in Barra, and, in six months, return 
to England, — and by noon was ready to start on a voy- 
age of seven hundred miles, and, probably, for a year’s 
absence. The Juiz de Direito, or Judge of the district, 
had kindly sent me a turkey and a sucking-pig; the 
former of which I took alive, and the latter roasted ; so 
I had a stock of provisions to commence the voyage. 
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