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This is a very bad place ....It is impossible to live<lb/> | This is a very bad place ....It is impossible to live<lb/> | ||
here long.</p> | here long.</p> | ||
<p>Well, Sir, but this correspondent of <sic>your's</sic> who is<lb/> | |||
he? "him of miser my Lord: <del>but</del><add>yet</add> not the less but the<lb/> | |||
more credible, <del>for his place unvarnished</del><add>in his undesigned and artless</add> <unclear>tule.</unclear> <add>[+]1</add> <note><add>[+]</add> Had the person written<lb/> | |||
to been a person from<lb/> | |||
whose interpretation any<lb/> | |||
the faintest hope of relief<lb/> | |||
could have been <del><gap/></del><lb/> | |||
conceived, motives for<lb/> | |||
exaggeration at least<lb/> | |||
if not for absolute<lb/> | |||
untruth might have<lb/> | |||
been imputed, and<lb/> | |||
no altogether without<lb/> | |||
cause. The fact is -<lb/> | |||
<del>that</del> written to a shorter<lb/> | |||
though not companion<lb/> | |||
in affliction, as above<lb/> | |||
described, it fill by mere<lb/> | |||
accident, thought not<lb/> | |||
without sufficient authentication,<lb/> | |||
into the hands<lb/> | |||
of a gentleman by<lb/> | |||
whose permission the<lb/> | |||
copy I have (the<lb/> | |||
original <add>having been</add> also in my<lb/> | |||
hands) was obtained.<lb/> | |||
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But his name, Sir? - To my Lord: there your<lb/> | |||
Lordship will have the goodness to excuse me. I have | |||
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Letter 3 {3 XVII Hulks
[Botany Bay]
Our victuals would do in quantity: but the quality
is so bad, and the cooking so nasty, that nothing but
climming [starving] can force a man to eat it. We
have meat for dinner one day, and bread and cheese
the other: boiled barley for breakfast, and burgon for
supper: neither, good not clean: so that they that can
get any thing eat but litle of the ship's allowance
This is a very bad place ....It is impossible to live
here long.
Well, Sir, but this correspondent of your's who is
he? "him of miser my Lord: butyet not the less but the
more credible, for his place unvarnishedin his undesigned and artless tule. [+]1 [+] Had the person written
to been a person from
whose interpretation any
the faintest hope of relief
could have been
conceived, motives for
exaggeration at least
if not for absolute
untruth might have
been imputed, and
no altogether without
cause. The fact is -
that written to a shorter
though not companion
in affliction, as above
described, it fill by mere
accident, thought not
without sufficient authentication,
into the hands
of a gentleman by
whose permission the
copy I have (the
original having been also in my
hands) was obtained.
But his name, Sir? - To my Lord: there your
Lordship will have the goodness to excuse me. I have
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letter 3 |
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correspondence |
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jeremy bentham |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
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