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the laws of our country will allow this? We are served with rotten meat." "July 4^th[.] Heavy rain."

Here another chasm is supplied from M^r Campbell's narrative. "We were told by Swain" (the clerk in charge of the post) "that he had orders from Williams only to be allowed to walk about in the inside of the fort, and that if either of us attempted to go beyond the limits prescribed, we would be more closely confined. The place which was alotted to us was a very small room with four or five cabins or berths for beds, and filled with dirt and vermin." (The men were confined in the same place.) "Swain announced to us that we should not be allowed any liquor even by paying for it, and that, as to diet, we should be served out of the kitchen, also that we should not be allowed the use of pen, ink, or paper, without we promised that our writing should be inspected by him; on this condition both M^r Frobisher and myself declined accepting of their indulgence[.] Iron bars were put into the windows of our quarters. Round this house or hut, which was very low, lay heaps of filth and dirt, and

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