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but had been beaten off by them,
and also that there were known to be five large Pirate Junks belonging to Conlan, which were probably the same Vessels; I therefore went to that place
and found two Pirate Junks at anchor - their crews on our approach escaped ashore throwing their guns overboard, but leaving Boxes of Powder, Gingalls and other effects, for about 30 in each vessel; after burning these Junks, I crossed to the mainland, to examine which
five other vessels, one (a small one) managed to escape up one of the creeks and the other (a very large vessel fitted for about 30 guns, with Topmast backstay and some of the fittings of a Merchant Vessel in her, supposed to have belonged to the "Parana,") was scuttled; Guns removed 80. before we could reach her; however I set her on fire and she afterward burnt to the water's Edge. I then steered back to Sintin
where we arrived this morning, and heard that the day after the burning of the Bing, five large Mandarin Junks heavily armed, carrying powder
from Canton