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often as convenient a boat with green boughs should be laid along side with a gangway of green boughs laid from the hold to her & a drum kept going below in the vessell for one or more nights & as person will constantly be used to destroy them & the cockroaches   the crew must not complain if some of them who may die in the ceiling makes an unpleasant smell as it is likely from analysis that the easterly wind will prevail to the south of the line for the month of March to that of September   it is to be hoped that the vessell will be fitted out with as much despatch as is convenient with a view of her not losing a year which will be the case if she loses the first monsoon

Her first destination will 

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