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18. set out from Tepic in Company with W.W. Alpin and all. Peter Hamilton, strikeout Captain of the Mauginta Cutter (formerly "Lord Townsend" in the British revenue Service.) We were all Scotchmen and all young, and altho' accustomed to meet Countrymen every where I go to, strikeout who have visited strikeout three words very different Countries, I Could not help remarking that three young men who had all left their own Country should have met here in such an out of the way place, and which none of us ever expected on leaving our own Country ever to have seen, and in truth never had heard of -- Mr. Alpin Came from Europe round the Cape of Good Hope, and by the way of Calcutta to Sb Blas. -- Hamilton Came round Cape Horn,