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16.)

Wts for the King
Robt Macfarlane the Prosr.
A scotchman – a foremastman in a Pilot sloop.
8 o’cl: one eveng abt 2 months ago, in the Rada Bazar – Prisr without any provocation, knocked me down with his fist.
He sd in Engl: that he wd tear my insie out & called me abusive names.
I got up, he tore my waistcoat & shirt – collaring me. I sd nothing to him nor returned his blows but ran away.
I know the man by sight as he was [ILL]unny on board Capt. Shillingchamp’s ship, which I piloted