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I heard a voice which made me look round from the back wo of my Palengr

I saw a man who told me in Portuguese that he had something of consequence to impart to me. I replied that I supposed it was of more conseq to him than to me. He sd bluntly I had no right to doubt his word that wt he had to say was of consequence both to my Life & fortune