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. . . I am in perfect good health, which I pray God to continue, till I can give a good account of that rascal Carleton, and his bloody backs ー I call them so, not so much for the colour of their cloth, as for their base and savage conduct in suffering the head of the brave Capt. [Remember] Baker, to be severed from his body and fixed upon a pole at St. John's, where it now remains, as a monument of their savage tempers, and an incentive to us; bravely to revenge his death, or fall in the glorious attempt.