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 to be tripedſtripped [sic] and whipt if I would not confes directly I had killed him, and while they were tripingſtripping [sic] me, they aked for what I kicked him down to the hold? why aid I he was going into my hamockhammock [sic], and I would not let him, as he is all in a vermin of lice. but aid they, how can you prove that? O! aid I, the lice that is on him will prove that, the Irih-man was ent for, who came and told he was not killed but his thumb was off joint, and he was much better now, come near aid the captain and let me know if it be true the Scoch-manScotch-man [sic] ays, throw off yoryour [sic] coat, which he no ooner did, than the vermin appeared in warms, on his westcoatwaistcoat [sic], made the captain cry out he had an army ufficient to feightfight [sic] the French himelf, were they all humunhuman [sic] mortals, and well armed, uch a ight he never eed, he was enough to polutepollute [sic] the very deiveldevil [sic], beides to defile his whlewhole [sic] hips crew. o ordered him to the gangway, to get ix duzendozen [sic] of lahes and then he was tript naked on the deck, and alt water pumped upon him, and rubedrubbed [sic] over with oat meal even coured as a pair of ruty tongs' from top to toe, his thumb et in joint, and newly cloathed; o as he aid the Scots-man had made him better. So in two days there after my own captain come on board the tondertender [sic], and I was ent away with him, as they thought I was not fit for their turn.

After I erved my time with Captain Gray, and everal other voyages to ea in the late war, I went a voyage with Captain Collin Campbell to North Carolina, and being landed there with