CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844 — Page 222

Inst. if

20.

for the doctor

he should go It's not recollect seeing In Partridge, but I saw him in the boat going In shore. From the time when I first came on deck, until prisoner had been secured, I was intent on arresting prisoner, and did not observe anything particularly. I assisted for a into the Cuddy, and cut ... by to staunch the wounds

bpovred

Einen

Aux

band ages, until the

Doctor arrived. Jo Pen

ambay

on board about half ...

after I had been wounded

I

–

' then saw that Mr It had received

wounds on

his left side. A piece

of fat protruded from

one of the wounds -

the lower one.

The knife which prisoner held was such

as is

usually used

by Manilamen

and

21.

and I think that it was

usually

the

Chart Like

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used by him / prisoner /

The blade was about six inches

long.

I examined it

after prisoner had been secured. I found it marked with blood from the point five inches towards the hilt.

The upper part

of the blade was

double edged from the point about two inches towards the handle. The knife was taken possession

of by & Hamsay . The knives used

by Manilamen are double edged towards the point. Mr. St.

... said that the prisoner had stabbed him. When Gorki stood on

the starboard quarter, suddenly lifted his hand to look for the wounds. I then

saw one wound. While I was

doing this prisoner

was bound to the

belaying pin.