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and commanded in the captain absence. His hands, being extended, were tied up to the shrouds, & his feet also were tied with spun yarn: his feet were so placed that he might have fixed the soles of them on the deck
This was abt 10 o’clock in the morning. I did not see the captain come on board in the day time that day, I don’t think he came on board that day. The man continued tied up till the evening when the workmen, (carpenters & caulkers) went away. I was then washing the sides of the ship, and the deck, and soon after the deced asked me for water I did not give it him, but when my work was done as I was
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