F
6.
answered "no"; _ the following day
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I was taken before the same officials
and I
was asked if I wished to and: I said I did;
"Jes
the
third
day
I went again before
the same
dan
Officials and signed.
agreement when I received eight agreement I signed
dellars; the
was not read to one.
day
the
sanne
that I signed the agrement
I was latter with a party of about
one hundred, on board ship; seven
eight soldiers with muskets won't with us; there
were about three
hundred Chinese
on board when
I went
board; of these between
ton and twenty chiefly boys