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put on his hat: he was cleaning his piece without a shirt on, as it is common among soldiers.

Cross Examd
I often had said to corporal Connor & George [ILL] that, when Middleditch was in liquor, he seemed out of his senses. Corporal Connor has made the same observation to me. I had seen him breaking his chest, & tearing his chest & tearing his cloths, and eating his food, in an indecent manner, with his hands, without knife or forke, saying he would that night be a Moorman, and next day a Brahman. I have heard Hopings sayhtat if a man stayed above five years in India, he grew mad and he perceived that to be