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I open’d the door and let him in. He came in and we sate down and talk’d togather, and about Eleven o’Clock Silvester and Pedro came in. They also sate down and were talking to me, they ask’d for some thing to drink, and as I live upon the profit of Arrack I did not think much to serve them with a dram from which they paid me. And in the Course of Conversation Silvester said I have just now stabbed a Negro. When I ask’d him whether it was true. He said it was. I told him he did
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