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I. James Benjamin Field at present residing at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, Shader,

oath and

6.

follows:

I am a British subject having

sayas.

make

been bom

in the City of Louisburgh County Mayo Ireland and I have at no time changed my nationality.

on a

In the month of July one thousand eight. hundred and seventy three I chartered the German Brig Maria Louise for the purpose of proceeding

trading voyage to the sulu Seas Borneo, the Straits Settlements and Singapore and accordingly Ponyself proceeded in the said brig. on her intended voyage as super cargo on bourd leaving Hongkong about the Fourleenth day of Quly, one thousand eight hundred and seventy

three.

Having proceeded on the said intended voyage on or about the Sixteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and Seventy Three the said brig "Maria Louise was seired or - captured in the Sulu seas by a Spanish man of War and I myself.

I myself was claimed as and made a prisoner and placed under arrest on board the said man of War and after. monthis detention in the said sulu seas the

Maria Louise, was towed by a Spanish

said brig.

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