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Man who had spoken to me the day but one before.

He returned & said it was. On my arrival at Mr. Motte’s cutcherry, Mr. Maxwell shewd me a bloody letter written in Portuguese, which I knew by the Contents, as explained to me, to be meant for me, and which was directed to Sentor Megelan by mistake I suppose for McCullum. It is the same which is marked A.

I then began to comprehend the story which I had not understood before, and to find out who the persons were of whom he meant that I shod be aware. When I returnd from Dacca about the Month
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