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& not bring him before a Justice I asked him if we shod retire. He sd it was not necessy &, on my saying that the Servts wd overhear, he replied roughly (being a blunt vulgar man) that they did not understand Portuguese. Before he wd proceed he insisted that I shod promise not to bring him before a Justice, nor discover wt he shod tell me, to any pson. I told him perhaps I might not be able to keep such a