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Rio de Janeiro

she with difficulty fetchd the ship & soon after by some mismanagemen which I cannot account for broke adrift carrying with her my small boat which was made fast to her we had now no boat on board but a small 4 oard yawl which was immediately sent after her & took her in tow but notwithstanding all that could be done by the people who rowd in the long boat & those who towd in the yawl she was very soon out of sight & we were under the greatest uneasiness well knowing that she drove directly upon the reef of Rocks which Runns out from the point of Ilhoa das Ferreiras just to Leward of where we lay After remaining in this situation till two in the morning our people cam onboard & told us that the Long boat was sunk
 

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