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overboard (at the Marqueses) when the sailors declared on oath that they believed he could not reach the shore - I have heard of another who for a trivial offence struck this boy to the deck with a hammer & that boy his own relative - I have seen a mate take up a soup plate full of mashed potatoe and smash it to pieces over the cabin boys head because the lid of the pepper box came off & another kicked & smashed back because he would not take his shirt tail to wipe the plates.
There I think are sufficient examples to make me feel for the "poor sailor boy who gives up hope"
They have no normal instruction oaths & curses are continually sounded in their ears until they become so familiarised as to [indecipherable]