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While Joseph Banks was gone to fetch the papers, I intimated to Dr. Fothergill, that, the shells and other curiosities not having been returned me according to promise, it was proper to take notice of it now, and that, unless they were re-turned, I would not sign the receipt. But to this intimation Dr. Fothergill hastily replied, "No, no ; thou seest he is now in a passion, and it will be improper to " speak of them;" adding, that he placed so much confidence in Joseph Banks’s integrity, that he would answer for the return of at least the greatest part of them. And thus our meeting ended.
On the examination of the papers, thus delivered to me by Joseph Banks, I found them to be the memorandums and materials, from which, I conceived, my brother had written his lost journal: which being desirous of preserving for my own satisfaction, as well as the entertainment of my friends, I caused them to be faithfully transcribed; returning the originals back to Joseph Banks, as well to comply with Dr. Fothergill’s promise to him, as to induce him to return me the shells and curiosities he still detained.
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