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Some account of Batavia

for, to the deceit of an Indian, Cheating by false weights & measures, false samples, &c, &c, are lookd upon only as arts of trade, if you do not find them out tis well; if you do, well they say, then we must give you what is wanting, & refund without a blush or the least wrangle, as I myself have seen in matters relating to the ship, but their great fort is asking one price for their commodities, & charging another, so that a man who has laid in 100 pecol of sugar, as he thinks at 5 dollars a pecul, after it has been a week or ten days on board, will have a bill brought him in at 7, nor will the Merchant go from his charge, unless a written agreement or witnesses can be brought to prove the bargain, for my own part, I was fortunate enough to have heard this character of them before I came here, & wanting nothing but daily provision, agreed immediately in writing for every article at a certain price, which consequently my Landlord could never depart from, I also, as long as I was well, constanly once a week lookd over my bill, & took it into my posession, never

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