'I Need to Test Your Grog, Sir'

The rum corp officer would mix the grog with gunpowder to see if it caught fire. If it was over 60 % proof, tet would probably catch fire. So what they were looking for was floating rum, because it was extremely high alcoholic conttent. They'd then water it down eight to ten times and sell it to the colonists at eight to 10 times the price when thet's watered down 8 to ten times. And then what happened was gob became so important that it lured all the convicts off any public programms. The office idnt get care about public programmes. They is wanted to to to er to manage their farms. All the convicts became that they took

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