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I don't think, that this copy is Tasman's his own handwriting. I find where Tasman's name is signed, it is allways said: undersigned Tasman., which expression was superfluous, if Tasman had written it with his own hand. Besides the copyist has left out Sept: 22 23 24. which Tasman can not have done, as he wrote down every day the course, and the weather. And Nov ye 4th the part at the beginning two lines which he afterwards scratched out, and which by a mistake were taken from y^e 1^st November. This mistake should not be made but by a Transcriber. April y^e 16^th, the end of one Paragraph, and the beginning of the other are left out, which the Author hiring of it could not have done.