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May 1771.    Passage Homewards

4. Saild after dinner in company with 12 Indiamen & his Majesties ship Portland  resolvd to steer homewards with all expedition in Order (if possible) to bring home the first news of our voyage  as we found that many Particulars of it has transpird & particularly that a Copy of the Latitudes & Longitudes of most or all the principal places we had been at had been taken by the Captns Clerk from the Captns own Journals & Given or Sold to one of the India Captns. War we had no Longer the least suspicion of  the India men being orderd to sail immediately without waiting for the few who were not yet arrivd was a sufficient proof that our freinds at home were not at all apprehensive of it.

6. Pleasant breeze but our ship very far astern  she certainly sails worse than any one of the fleet yet as she keeps up with at least in sight hope they will not get
 

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