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[Page 77]

To Brazil

Octr. 1768

& that not till they are as high as 80 in which case the medium between the two instruments is set down) this Evening the ceremony of ducking the ships company was performed as always customary on crossing the line when those who have crossd it before Claim a right of ducking all that have not the whole of the ceremony I shall describe.

About dinner time a list was brought into the cabbin containing containg the names of every body & thing aboard the ship in which the dogs & catts were not forgot to this was affixd a petition sign'd the ships company desiring leave to examine every body in that List that it might be know whether or not they had crossd the line before. This was immediately granted every body was then calld upon the quarter deck & examind by one of the lieutenants who had crossd he markd every name either to be duckd or let off according as their qualifications

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