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in the bout it would be perfectly safe -

noticed

of

on one occasion when the boat

alongside that from the eagerness

board there

the Convicts to come ou

some danger of the boat going

over and I then said that this

move

tumbings had better not pluse

Convicts in the bout 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 altho I flieved it was because I did not heav

so much noise when the bout came

alongside, I never supposed there

Las

positive danger of the long boat upsetting - some three wicks back

-

A

turkey used to be in the

with the

prisorvers,

long boat

but about that

time some prisoners escaped when ashore and I was compelled to give order for the turkeys to stop astors. Inem warned the Convicts thro' the Interpreter

of the necessity of buring quict and sisterly when the long boat came alongside. I have heard the Convicts acting as -bonturen calling out what I supposed was "to be quiet" it would have been

safer to have had senty the boat than eighty, but with sixty

in

Evert

forty that would

be danger if there was

one side.

sitting

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