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has made wastful Expence of His Majesty's Stores, and converted them to his own private Use
Answer - Yes. Shortly after our leaving Gravesend the Carpenter mentioned to me that there was no wood on board to rep[air] the Boats with the Joiner Corporal Stephens having used the whole for furniture for Captain Short. At another time the Carpenter informed me that the Table I had lent from the Gun Room to the Midshipmen's Birth had been cut up by the Captain's Order to make a writing desk for him. Two Cotts and Canvas for two more Cotts designed for the Passengers was never appropriated to their use altho' applied for by them but the Canvas made into a Cott for Captain Short. At the time we arrived at the Cape, I desired the Boatswain to get a pair of Side Ropes covered he told me there was no Green Baize in the Ship, he has sent between 30 and 40 yards into the Cabin to Captain Short and had never received any back. That the Taylor had informed him it was made into Dish stands and other usee for the Cabin. On our passage between the Cape of Good Hope and Port Jackson, the Boatswain informed me that there were no log lines in the Ship And that for some time past he had been using fishing lines for that purpose And that he accounted for their being no log lines, by saying that Captain Short had used them for every trifling occasion