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scratches were caused, wr by an iron nail, or a man’s nails I can’t say. I suppose the last.
The mark of a rope round his body I saw plainly as the body lay on it’s back aboard the ship.

By the Court
The ship, when I saw the body aboard of it, was lying off the Taxall Ghaut in Calcutta, on this side of this river, much nearer to the Calcutta shore than the oppo=
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