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& probably unsafe merely in conformity to the official opinion of the navy board who purchased her without ever consulting me & now in no degree consider the part which I have taken in the voyage// or should I embark could anything material be expected from done by people under such circumstances so highly discouraging.

in is not apparent that I must return as I did the from my last travel voyage with my business imcompleatly [sic] done as the not having a sufficient number of people with me or not sufficient room for those I have to work in must be productive of exactly the same consequences

// [note right]or the alterations which in my remonstrance they concurrd [sic] with me in thinking necessary but have now taken away. 

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