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On the 2nd Instant, at daylight she had reached and anchored at Chelang Point to procure water and provisions, while the crew and some of the Passengers were doing this, a Junk of about 1500 Piculs ranged alongside and after throwing about 15 stink pots into her hold, the Pirates boarded her, killed and threw overboard four men and wounded two others, they then forced every one below, fastened the hatches and took the vessel to a place called Frein Mon, about 40 miles East of this, and then left her at 11 P.M. of the same day, taking about $3000, 3 Guns, 2 Piculs of Silk Twist, and all the good clothes which they could find. Shortly afterward those confined burst open the hatches, and ...
here, the Master of the "Kenn-Chong-heng" reports he saw the Pirates at noon of the 4th outside Hong Kong standing to the South Westward and appears positive to his being able to find her if sent out in a Gunboat.
I have re-examined him since his return in the "Danes", he repeats his previous account.
... saw several Junks outside but not the one which had attacked him, he believes...