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it was on a Sunday evening, (but I am not sure) Captain Crawford, whom I did not before know, called upon me, and said that a man on board his ship was very ill in a fit, and he desired that I would go with him immediately. I accordingly went with him on board a ship which lay on this side of the river near the old Fort. We found the man lying on the quarter deck, covered with a cloth coat. A light was brot but on examining the man I found he was dead; I tried to bleed him in the arm, but only a few drops of blood came, his heart was still a little warm