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447.-Four on each side do you mean?
A.-Eight altogether: about three on my side and five or six on the other; some
were wounded and some cleared up the hill.
448.--Chinese?
A.-Yes.
449.—What was the Kwashán?
A.-A launch.
450.-Were you in command of her?
A. Yes.
451.-How many men had you?
A.-Nine all told.
452. How many on this particular occasion?
A.-Eight Chinese and myself.
453.—And out of that number there were three men killed?
A. Yes. On the opposite side there were a lot wounded.
454.-What had you then to fight with?
A.-Two junks.
455.-Did they fire on you?
A. Yes, they fired on me. I hailed them to stop first, and I fired across their bows, and when they saw I was bent on making them stop, they fired back.
456. Both of them?
A. Yes.
457.-How do you know you killed four or five men on their junk?
A.-By picking up their junk afterwards. When they fired, we were too strong
for them. They ran the junk ashore.
458.-How many killed did you find?
A.--Three.
459.-Can you tell us what month that was?
A.-No.
460.-What time of the night or day?
A. It was night time, between eleven and twelve o'clock, flood tide.
461.-Did they come out from Hongkong?
A. They came from Yaumáti.
462.-How do you know?
A.--Some of the men on board could talk English. Some of them had been in California.
463.-How do you know, if they all ran away?
A. Because they came to Canton afterwards to get their junks back, and I saw them in the Customs, and my own crew told me.