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Order to take Care of the Brig and prevent her being driven
on Shore, that some short Time after he the Deponent and
the other four Men had got on Board the Brig the Painter
with which they had fastened the Schooners Boat to the
Brig gave Way and the Boat went adrift, but the Schooner
bore down and took the Boat up, that then he the Deponent
shortned Sail in Order that the Schooner might come up with
the Brig Marlbro' of which he had then Charge, and soon
after perceiving that a Whifft was hoisted to the Schooners'
Mast-Head as a Signal to speak with him the Deponent he
hove to, and the Schooner then being to the Windward of
the Brig came to an Anchor that immediately afterwards
the Deponent saw the Schooners' Sails lowered, and all the
Brig's-People being nine in Number jump into the Schoon-
er's- Yawl, and row towards the Brig which they boarded
three of them having in their Hands naked Cutlasses which
they had brought from the Schooner, that after the said
Brig's Crew had come on Board the Brig he the Deponent
applied to them for the Boat in Order that he and his four
Men might return on Board the Schooner but they refused to
let him have the Boat one of them named McLachlan at the
same Time holding a drawn Cutlass over the Deponents'
Head, and swearing he would cut him down if he the De-
ponent offered to say a Word: That then the Marlbro's
Crew made all the Sail they could and stood up the Bay
having taken all the Oars out of the Boat, and veered her a
stern, that about one or two o' Clock in the Morning the
Mate of the Marlborough whose Name he thinks was Belt,
came to him the Deponent and ordered him and his four
People to go into the Boat, saying he would keep them no
longer on Board and that if they did not go readily he would
put them in Head-foremost, and that when the four People
were descending into the Boat the said Mate of the Marl-
borough demanded the Brig's Papers of the Deponent in
whose Custody they had been, since they had been first de-
livered to him by Captain Mulkere, that at first the Depo-
nent hesitated to deliver them, saying that he had no Papers
belonging to him the said Marlbro's Mate, but the Mate
saying peremptorily that the Brig's Papers were in his the
Deponents Pocket together with Captain Mulkere's Com-
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mission, and again ordering the Deponent to deliver them he
the Deponent apprehending that his Life would be in Danger
was he to refuse, took them out of his Pocket, and laid the
said Papers down together with Captain Mulkere's Com-
mission on the Locker in the Cabbin whence the Marlbro's
Mate took up the Brig's Papers but did not touch the Com-
mission, and the Deponent says that at the Time he received
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