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my master went [ILL] some he alighted towards [ILL] cook’s tent, before he went to his own. He went near the cook’s tent.
The coachman cook made a complaint is English, which I did not understand. I knew the cook had lost his boy, & enquiry having been made for him, I guessed it was a complaint on that subject. I said nothing to the cook before the prisoner. Mr. Sturt went out hunting at dawn of day.
I had not then seen the cook. I heard [ILL] the near the place, where the tent was, that the cook had lost his boy