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acts of Cruelty and inhumanity, which soon was the Cause of his incurring and hatred and detestation of his Companions. Here we cannot avoid expressing astonishment when we consider that the very crime he was then guilty of towards his Companions (who had assisted him in his foul Mutiny) was the very same they so loudly accused their former Commander of. It is indeed very singular that this Circumstance should not have been a Serious lesson to him, for his guidance in his future treatment of his Shipmates in error. This miserable young Man, after having left Otaheite the last time (for he visited Anamooka, one of the Friendly Islands) after his desertion from his duty, and disobedience to his Captain, not finding the reception he expected there, or rather that his plans could not be carried into