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sick thro' fatigue- I hope this is the third & last attempt & that we may escape the pirates w.h swarm on this Line & have gone so far as to attack & take a 10 Gun Brig-
When once I get home there I shall remain - I now regret I did not go from Batavia to Bombay & up the Red Sea- It w.d have been less expensive, less hazardous & more agreeable - I shall expect long letters from your family in England especially all the news from Emmeline.
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