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that has been between Captain Short and myself, all of which might have been prevented by a civil deportment in him, but he has studiously avoided every personal communication, and troubled me with Letters and Messages.

In some of these Letters while his Pen was expressing something like civility, his mind was forming the greatest acts of rudeness ;  and this is not more remarkable than the great condescension he shewed the two or three times I sent for him, followed up soon after he left me by violent opposition to the very circumstances he had proposed himself, and agreed upon ;  Besides all this, he has been guilty of more than common Acts of an irritating temper.  He refused me a Boat to send Letters to my Friends at a moment when he should have

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