believe broke the lock of
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the
grating of the fore hatch and
I believe about a
hundred other
coolies excaped from below
many
of the cookies had been trampled
othere
their efforts to
down by
get up the hatchway, and many had been suffocated by the smott ; at the time I got through the halchury I bebeve that the fire had got through to the lower deck, because I save some of the coolies who had been burned;
but I had
not seen not seen the flames :
when . I got to the upper deck
the fire had reached the fore mast and the sails and rigging