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in the boat it would be perfectly safe -
noticed
of
on one occasion when the boat alongside that from the eagerness
board there
the Convicts to come out
some danger of the boat going
over and I then said that this
move
tumblings had better not push
Convicts in the boat at
than
sixty
one time, I did not give a positive
order to this.
was not
and the order.
nor did I see
effect, writing,
that the order was carried out although I believed it was because I did not hear
so much noise when the boat came
alongside, I never supposed there
was
positive danger of the long boat upsetting - some three weeks back
-
A
turkey used to be in the
with the
prisoners,
long boat
but about that
time some prisoners escaped when ashore and I was compelled to give order for the turkeys to stop aft. I warned the Convicts thro' the Interpreter
of the necessity of being quiet and orderly when the long boat came alongside. I have heard the Convicts acting as boatmen calling out what I supposed was "to be quiet" it would have been
safer to have had sixty in the boat than eighty, but with sixty
in
every
forty that would
be danger if there was
one side.
sitting
I
a
rush to
think twenty
C
side would ...