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 I'll give you ixpence aid he, to buy gingerbread, and go ahore again, and be d--- to you; a little after I was called aboard out of the boat into the tender, where he feelt my hands and aid he belivedbelieved [sic] I might do, and ordreredordered [sic] me to wah myelf, and get cloaths, in a little the comes pat and cries, you, help to haul the main-ail, I run fore and aft, betwenbetween [sic] the cabin and the forcatle, I tramps on his toes, which et him a curing me, aying what was I eeking there; O! aid I tell me where the main-yard is, I am going there, at this he wore I was a mad man to be eeking the main-yard on the deck, he aid. what do you not know the main-yard yet? and how hould I know the main-yard? when I was never here before, I was next ordered up to hand the fore top-ail, and being without the clew, the other man firledfurled [sic] his, but I roledrolled [sic] mine together, in a very carles way, the other man when done, went down, but I keept lying over the yard, holding by the ail, the call's out, what are you doing there, do you want up your hammock? no aid I, but if I come down the ail will fafall [sic], why aid he, can't you put on the gaket on it, no aid I, and then lets it all fall down as it was, o another had to mount, and I came down, but och the curescurſes [sic] I got, he again ent me to make foxes, which I did the firt two very well to his pleaure, but he was no ooner gone than I took my knife and cut ome peicespieces [sic] of the yarn, and began to pletplait [sic] it as a lingel to mend an old shoe, he comes again, and lookeslooks [sic] at me, aying what are you doing now, deed aid I, I am makinmaking [sic] foxes, yoa'ryou're [sic] making the devil irahſyrah(?) [sic], takes me over tdethe [sic] mouth with his rattan, till the blood followed,