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We tied the hatch down with a

rope, until the Captain

came

and gave:

the

Keys to the bocibunin.

for

who padlocked it. Some ran

arms, and surrounded the batch. The costin below withdrew from the hatchurry and get Manchions from the banks and heat up the boards of the deck: at firet they

did so formerd. The Captain ordered us to fire down on

Five

or six shoto

them.

fired in

horizontal direction from the fore hatch, downwards and forwards. I cannot say is any

one was shot

The coolies then went aft. They there

spring up two planks and the

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