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compliments to Captain Bligh and that Captain Moore is going to leave us tomorrow, and as we have twelve convicts on board which Captain Moore must have returned without he was certain of meeting us at the Rio and parting with them will distress the Ship so that she cannot carry Sail by Night and if Captain Bligh has made up his mind if he is going to Rio, to beg him to let him know, and not only that but fighting the Ship requires them."
Being sensible it would be disobedience of orders for us to go into Rio, I wrote an answer (Z) to Captain Short and referred him to my former letter (N) on the subject, and another (P) on the subject of the convicts, the receiving of whom I disapproved of, the Porpoise being manned according to her establishment.
On the 20th Captain Short again