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began again to write to me {A} to do away his conduct, and of some conversation between the Master of the Sinclair and himself about parting Company and rendering me accommodation; - this was extraordinary art and insinuation; - to which I replied {B} I should direct him what to do if necessity required a separation, but in the mean time referred him to his public orders and admonished him for his conduct to the Ship I was in.
On the 17th April I received a Letter {C} from him dated 10th telling me he would persist in his conduct of not suffering the Sinclair to guide him but by Signal, and that he would not suffer the Sinclair to part Company: artfully designing to allude to circumstances as if I had been making some requests while he knew I had made none, and that I would not allow him out of my reach - This will be found in all his Letters more or less and that his disobedience and insults have first taken place, and then followed up by excuses on account of the Public Service.-
On the 9th May in the Cape of Good Hope in sight about three or four Leagues distant, and observing the Porpoise did not know