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and produced a watch [which] he asked me to purchase. I told him if he pleased I would sell it for him, meaning by auction. He did not agree to that, but shew’d me the watch is sd the price was R 600. I suspected it to be stolen & told him I wod purchase it if it was a good one, and asked him if he would give me leave to carry it to a watch maker. I suspected it bec: