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told me I was to go before a magistrate and tell truly what I had seen neither favouring them, nor the Bengally. So I went with them before a magistrate in Calcutta. This was next morning.

Qu: might it not be [ILL] when the man was brot on board.
A. No – I know by the bells of the several ships that it was 10 o’clock. They ring out at 8 and when after that the bell sounded twice. I conceive it to