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to do with them, but as I had promised I
was determined to carry it out. I succeded
in dragging these two large sacks unobserved
across the deck and in secreting them in
my room, and it was in getting these
things ashore to which I now directed
my attention. As the ship entered the
Dock yesterday all the sailors with the
exception of two or three deserted the
vessel, among whom was my friend the
Sailor Dick, and I now perfectly well
understood his motive for entrusting his
goods to me, for as there is a very heavy
penalty for deserting the ship, those who
wish to leave are obliged to go surreptitiously
in which case he would have been obliged
to leave his baggage behind him and it
was in the hopes of saving it that he
entrusted it to me for in either event
he could but lose it. Before Dick left
yesterday, he mad an arrangement
by which I was to send his luggage to
a Public House in the vicinity of the
Dock, and he would send a barge and

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