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My master’s palanquin was stopt in the street by a man who talked with him in Portug. I don’t understand Portgu & It might possibly be English, but it was not Hindostany or Bengally. The man gave a paper to my Mar which my Mar looked at, & retd. After they had conversed the went away. Two days after (as I think, but it if a yr ago) my mar went to Mr. Motte’s & I went with him. I saw my Mar Jr. Maxwell, & Mr Motte looking at a paper, a dirty paper on which something was written. As my mar was coming away
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