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servant on board the Barclay, and there remain, as he believed 
that a change of water, pure air, and greater tranquillity would 
render his situation more tolerable; and as the extreme debility 
of the gentleman prevented him entirely from doing his duty on 
board, and as he was constantly complaining of his sufferings 
from the confined air of this ship, I was happy he had fallen on 
an expedient to render his existence more supportable, and took 
the first opportunity of sending him on board the Barclay, where 
he soon found himself more comfortably situated than among the 
noise and confusion of a man of war, for which his low state of 
health entirely unsuited him. 
