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- Sungeon attending the Hulk arrived about half an hour after the bout sepset .

Wusaib - having made declaration -

deprosette. I an

A

prisoner

کرتے کرتے کر کے

board the

Convict hulk. On the eaning of the

Lord

1st July

23

of a

July Instant I was one number of prisoners in the last

bout that

came

four

the stove to the

Hulk. I do not know how many

pursores

wen in.

to

the bout _ it scoured

to be the usual number_

the bout

was not much crowded.

j

at the stern

Mud

of

the bout

sitting when the bout arrived

-alongside the Hulk the prisoners

extribited the usual.

eagerness to

get

board, and crowded to the ladder "

some of those getting up fell buck

ngainst the other

in

there was prisoners there

consequence a crowding to one side of the bout and the bout went our

the outer side

away from

the

ship_ it happened that I had

wope hanging

hold of

over the

-side and I clung to this and

got up the side without being

thoroughly immersed.

beat

It appeared to

was

ме

that the

large convinyle to carry

the number.

of prisoners in the bout, and that the motining of the

он

prisoners to the side to get o board that caused the bout

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