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which

third, now under sail, but unfortunately receiving a discharge of grape wounded the captain, she sheered off shortly after. I observed a raking shot from the Gunboat cut the junk's mainmast in twos, dismount a 32 Dr and smash the Captain, killing 2 or 3 men she then gave

us no

trouble. The water had been rising

about 32 feet

of the

an

pirates were

hour so that

many drowned in the

attempt to swim on

the

prizes was

a

shore. One of

lorcha mounting ten European guns, fitted by European

the other two were West Coast boats mounting 11 and 7 (heavy) guns respectively. The largest guns were

two 32 Pr. they

were well furnished in

Muskets rifles pistols etc. of

the

worst foreign manufacture, had a good supply of bad English powder and a large stock of cartridges.

For the next three days I

was kept at anchor by a gale of wind blowing outside, during which I transferred the

guns from the Lorcha to the Dragon boat, and

the

the

presented them to Colonel Kew, cutting the trunnions off remaining guns

I blew up and burnt the other two prizes, who had

both lost their mainmasts, and were

otherwise unseaworthy from shot

holes.