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Rio de Janeiro

without giving him a hearing & keeping him there till he is glad at any rate to get out without asking why he was put in or at best sending him to lisbon to be tried there without letting his family here know where he is gone to is very common This we experiend while here for every one who had interpreted for our people & some who had only assisted in buying provisions for them were put into Jail merely I suppose to shew us their power I should however except from this rule one John Burrish an officer in their customs a man who has been here 13 years & is so compleatly become a Portugese that he is known by no other name than Don John he was of service to our people tho what he did was so clogd with a suspicious fear of offending the Portugese that as renderd it disgustfull it is nescessary that any one who should Come here should know his

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