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the boat was all ready to pull with the rope when we found there were no oars in her, and I found fault with the boatswain for not having told the men to put them in the boat and he turned round to me and said "I don't know what the bloody hell you do want," I said you had better not use such language to me or I will soon find a way to stop it and he replied "What the bloody hell will you do, would anyone think you were God Almighty" upon which I knocked him off duty, and when I got to Kawchwang