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[Page 252]

South Sea

25. Wind continued much the same but more moderate few or no birds were about the ship but some sea weed was seen by some of the people only one bed

This even one of our marines threw himself overboard & was not miss'd till it was much too late even to attempt to recover him he was a very young man scarce 21 years of age remarkably quiet & industrious & to make his exit the more melancholy was drove to the rash resolution by an accident so trifling as that it must appear incredible to every body who is not well accquainted with the powerfull effects that shame can work upon young minds.

This day at noon he was sentry at the Cabbin door & while he was on that duty one of the Capts servants being calld away in a hurry left a peice of seal skin in his charge which it seems he was going to cut up to make tobacco pouches some of which he had promisd to several of the men the poor young fellow it seems had several times askd him for one & when refus'd had told
 

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