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before a magistrate, and supposing it to have been Sunday as you say you believe: Was it necessary to confine him in that manner.
A. No I think it would have been better to have tied him upon the deck or below stairs, than to have been tied him to the shrowd. Though if he stood on his feet when tied up to the shrowds. I do not know that it would have made much difference.
I should not have thought that tying up a man up to the shrowd from ten in the morn-
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