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charge, which smaller boat toured the long boat. I heard a previous witness depose as to the dimension the long boat; the description given is accurate. I never supposed that this long boat was unsas... I made application to the Government to have a flat bottomed boat for landing upon Captain Hall who fitted the Royal Savon reporting that the "long boat hard sufficiency to carry twenty men," Government directed me to use the long boat. I offered to build a flat bottomed boat and the Surveyor General sent me spars and planks for the purpose, but as the spars were too small I returned them, a raft might have been made with the spars but I considered a raft unsuitable and would not take upon myself the responsibility of using the long boat. I considered that the long boat used had a carrying capacity much exceeding that of the weight of eighty Convicts in irons.
The long boat... hogshead (of sugar), this would be dead weight, as the convicts sat round the gunwale of the boat it would be consequently top-heavy. But unless there was connection...