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deck Prisr was below on the lower deck, and handed them up to me.
I laid them on the chest & sd “I will have nothing more to do with them” & I went back again to the upper deck intending to speak abot it to the people but I met the Midshipman (Thos Alliston) who desired me to help him up with his chest, I went down again for that purpose & got his chest forward.
By this time Mr. Alcock had found the parcels lying