186 196 Claggart at this invitation or rather
summons to disburthen, spoke up.
What he said, conveyed in the language
of no uneducated man, was to this
the effect ^ following if not altogether
in these words, namely, that
that during the chace and
preparations for the possible encounter he
had seen enough to convince him that 7
at least one sailor aboard ^ one not a
volunteer , was a ^ rather dangerous character
in a ship mustering

some who not only had taken a guilty
part in the late serious troubles, but others
also who, like the man in question, had
been entered His Magesty's service inder
another form than enlistment.
186 196 Claggart at this invitation or rather
summons to disburthen, spoke up.
What he said, conveyed in the language
of no uneducated man, was to this
the effect ^ following if not altogether
in these words, namely, that
that during the chace and
preparations for the possible encounter he
had seen enough to convince him that 7
at least one sailor aboard ^ one not a
volunteer , was a ^ rather dangerous character
in a ship mustering

some who not only had taken a guilty
part in the late serious troubles, but others
also who, like the man in question, had
been entered His Magesty's service inder
another form than enlistment.

Transcribed by: John Bryant