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revolvers and cutlasses and
having divided themselves into
four gangs.
commenced attacks
on the saloon where the Captain
and the European passengers
the engineers
the
were at lunch; on
and officers' quarters:
or
engine rooms, and on the
the bridge.
The attacks were so sudden,
so desperate and had evidently
been so well planned that
resistance would have been
any
useless, besides which the pirates
had taken possession of
the arms
and ammunition
belonging to the ship.
The attack actually
commenced by fire being opened
upon the quarters of the Officers
and
Engineers. The second
Engineer
at once taken
prisoner and ordered, under
threat of immediate death, to
point out where the valuables
and other treasures were. The
second officer whose name was
Ranway was shot through the
arm,
but
the
managed to escape
to