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made 40 of the Crew the accomodations of the people are very much reducd  for the spar-deck being cut away 30 of the people crew are to be removd under the gun deck [X]

[Margin note X] before sufficiently crowded

which being very low & confind without a free air  must necessarily infallibly [D]

[Margin note D]  in so long a voyage

produce putrid distempers [O.] & what my Lord ought more to be dreaded by a discoverer than such a calamity which must soon oblige him to quit his discovery & very probably very soon even put it out of his power to bring home any account of what he has

[Margin note O.] & scurvy

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