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 to your merit, you mut impute the deficiency to the ituation of us both.

return to this hotile civility, Captain Hunt warned them from the iland, which he claimed in the name of the King, as belonging to the Englih by right of the firt dicovery and the firt ettlement.

was an aertion of more confidence than certainty. The right of dicovery indeed has already appeared to be probable, but the right which priority of ettlement confers I know not whether we yet can etablih.

December 10, the officer ent by the governor of Port Solidad made three protets againt Captain Hunt; for threatening to fire upon him; for oppoing his entrance into Port Egmont; and for entering himelf into Port Solidad. On the 12th the governor of Port Solidad formally warned Captain