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To Brasil
Novr. 1768
pilot & stood up the river expecting him down very soon he did not nor did the boat till we were on the point of dropping an anchor just under the town the boat then came without either of our officers in exchange for whom came a Subaltern Portugese who seemd to have no kind of Business with us the Cockswain brought word from the Leutenant that he was detaind on shore till the Captain should go off Soon after we came to an anchor a ten Oard boat came alongside the ship with 12 or 14 soldiers in it who rowed round us without taking any notice of us or saying a word a quarter of an hour after came a boat in which was a Disembargador & a Colonel of a Portugese regiment who askd us many questions which at first seemd to discourage our stay as telling us that
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