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I to do with this. He said Take it & put it into your own Birth.
I sd.
I will not, it is some thing that belongs neither to you nor me. So I laid it down by the Hatchway where I had taken it up, and I went to my own Birth. The Prisr then put it in his own Birth upon a chest. Just then James Glover boatswain’s it who messed with Prisr came on board, & I sd to him “Look into yr Birth there is something there which should