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Rio de Janeiro

as far as we had towd the ship in the Morn

This day & yesterday the air was been crowded in an uncommon manner with Butterflies cheifly of one sort of which we took as many as we pleasd on board the ship their quantity was so large that at some times I may say many thousands were in view at a time once in almost any direction you could look the greatest part of them much above our mast heads

6. No land breeze today so we are confind in our disagreable situation without a possibility of moving: many curses were this day expended on his excellence

7. This morn weighd & stood out to sea as soon as we came to Sta Cruz the pilot desired to be dischargd & with him our enemy the guard boat goes went off so we were left our own masters & immediately resolved to go ashore on one of the Islands in the mouth of the
 

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