Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0253
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South Sea
March 1769
him that since he refusd him so trifling a thing he would if he could steal one from him this he put in practise as soon as the skin was given into his charge & was of course found out immediately as the other returnd who was angry & took the peice he had cut off from him but declard he would not complain to the officers for so trifling a cause
in the mean time the fact came to the ears of his fellow soldiers who stood up for the honour of their Core 13 in number so highly that before night for this hapned at noon they drove the young fellow almost mad by representing his crime in the blackest coulours as a breach of trust of the worst consequence a theft committed by a sentry upon duty they made him think an inexcusable crime especialy when the thing stole was given into his charge the Sargeant particularly declard that if the person acgreivd would not complain he would for people should not suffer scandal from the ill behaviour of one this affected the young fellow much he went to his hammock soon after the Sargeant went to him calld