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as old apparantly as if it had been growing thousand of years. Then neptune with his trident and with a crown on looking more like a devil than a god (the guards were each armed with a harpoon) then came the barbers each with their shaving brush as stiff as coir could be and with their Razors. After Neptune has shaken hands with the Capt and bowed to the ladies he was treated with a glass of grog by the Capt. and also at the same time he the Capt ordered that Neptune should have command for the day. then commenced the sport. The first one taken was the carpenter a fellow that was not liked by the men they placed him up on the bench scraped nearly all the skin off of his face and upset him backwards in the water where he was met by three big Negroes who ducked him and held him so that the engine would play full in his face. The poor fellow was near drowned when he was let loose. Next came the lieut of Marines he was a fat man about 200 lbs

or more.   They shaved him as usual upset him