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soud he would imprison us. tried at same time to reassure us, promising, when we went to sex rgain to give us the same rations
to
he gave us learning Hongkong. The Lame day he improved the ration
nd brought them up again the original scale, and spoke very friendly to the men stile they would not consent to go the voyage to England. They all said that.. when he got outside again
he
would shorten the rations and
tarve them. Tre were morcover reluctant to go to England-
we
had never been there and should 1: strangers when we got there, and being turned adrift, should
not know what to do with ourselves. we told him this and he made u
all sorts of promises- viy that wohen
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we got to Ingland he would keep
bound_ or find us a bounding house, and find no a ship to bring
back to China - upon all these promises the people began to listen to him; and I finally persuaded them to agree for the voyage- at last they
did so, and we received
one month's advance cach man at this time roc had nine Manilamen and eight Chinamen composing the crew-when
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the
voyage
to
we consented to England the Captain dibcharged the Chinamen and sent me down to
more
Worsuing to bring up fold to
form Manilamen, which I did. We sailed from Shanghai
the 28th August and were detained at Woosing mutil 3rd September, that day we got underweigh, and when about 5 days out and
on
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