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threw overboard before abandoning

X the ship . There were about 25

Chinese on

the upper deck, becides

the ones in irons, when the hatch wat crying

closed. These men

at the gallout forecastle, but when

the sprais they

we throw

X jumped

الله و

jumped overboard and seized

them. We had four brats allegothen,

but could only find time to louce

three, and of these, the liff brat

DCA) MAI

perfectly

swamped - The calm : The ship only drifted little. I cannot say if the ship anchered herself - The main and fore, masts were iron rigged, and the mizen mast rope-rigged

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