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the bows - he might possibly have been overboard - witness adds (from

himself) the deceased had a quanch

with Booray

the

same

evening-

about 7 o'clock - when the hands

Avere

shortening sail Borray

was

sitting down the Mate abused

him and was

with

going

to strike him

a block but dich not-

be reported him to the Captain

who

gave

him a clout (Borray

here interrupts the withers with

the words "that was not the first time the abused me but he did. not strike me") The Mrate could not speak Malay - I often heard him speak of Borray as the "Short seacunnie". There - seacunnies in the ship-one is

the prisoner Borray, whom the mate need to distinguish a

There are

three

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the "short seacunnie" _ the other

is

an

old

༩་་༩་༥,

and the mate

used to call him "the old

seacunnie" - the other is Ibrahim whom he used to call "seacunnie Brine". When the mate told me that the tall man and the "short sexcunnie" had forced him

up against the rail and drawn a trife

his throat, I

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understood him by the "short- Booray,

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seacunnie" to mean

for

the

"

so he used to call him - he told me he knew it was short sexcunnie by his voice, breause he spoke during the struggle. By the "tall man I understood him to mean the tindale (and prisoner) he (the Mente) told me he knew the tindal by his voice, during the struggle..

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