324
which
third, now under sail, but unfortunately receiving a discharge of grape wounded the captain, she sheered off shortly after. I observed a raking shot from the Gunboat cut the junk's mainmast in twos, dismount a 32 Dr and smash the Captain, killing 2 or 3 men she then gave
us no
trouble. The water had been rising
about 32 feet
of the
an
pirates were
hour so that
many drowned in the
attempt to swim on
the
prizes was
a
shore. One of
lorcha mounting ten European guns, fitted by European
the other two were West Coast boats mounting 11 and 7 (heavy) guns respectively. The largest guns were
two 32 Pr. they
were well furnished in
Muskets rifles pistols etc. of
the
worst foreign manufacture, had a good supply of bad English powder and a large stock of cartridges.
For the next three days I
was kept at anchor by a gale of wind blowing outside, during which I transferred the
guns from the Lorcha to the Dragon boat, and
the
the
presented them to Colonel Kew, cutting the trunnions off remaining guns
I blew up and burnt the other two prizes, who had
both lost their mainmasts, and were
otherwise unseaworthy from shot
holes.