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hands to heaven, and to the best of my understanding for I am not well acqd with portuguese, called upon his make to witness that he was an innocent man.
I did not hear the prisoner say anything to the wounded man. The prisoner appears to me to understand Bengally a little.
After this I desired the people to carry the wounded man to his own house, & I went & told Mr. Just: H what had passed. In consequence thereof the wounded man was
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