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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