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know it and was proceeding round Cape False, I made the Signal for the Master of the Porpoise, to give him instructions, which Captain Short answered with No. 375, that the purport [purpose] of the Signal was not understood. - I then made the Signal for the Captain, which was answered the same way, but afterwards the Master was sent on board to whom I communicated the knowledge that was necessary and wrote to Captain Short {D} directions about giving in. -
After all I anchored on the 10th at Night, but the Porpoise did not get in until the 11th in the Evening.
On the 12th Captain Short waited on me at my Lodgings but refused to give me the State and Condition of the Ship or to obey any orders until I went on board, and he left me abruptly. - I then sent him written orders {E} to give me the State and Condition of the Ship, which he disobeyed and afterwards began again with his Letters {F G H} of excuse, to which I made no reply, but once verbally by the Master, that as Captain Short had orders I expected he would know how to comply with them, our which as the Master did not at his request give in writing he