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that something had been broke open in the Hold or other part of the ship. I went forward with the 3d officer. This was in the evening immediately after the bundle or packet was brot to me. – We found sevl other packages, [which] I ordered to be carried into the cabin, and on inquiring how these packages came to be in the place where we fod them near the forecastle, I was told that the prisr had handed them up frm the lower deck.
I then sent for him & he