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Jamaica " that then Captain Mulkere ordered the Master of
the Brig to bring to saying that he wanted to see his Papers,
that the said Brig's Master not immediately obeying such
Order Captain Mulkere gave Chace and in about half an
Hour came up with her when upon his repeating the same
Order or Demand the Brig's main Top Sail was thrown
aback and Captain Mulkere had his Boat hoisted out and
went on Board her together with the Deponent and three
others of his Crew, that Captain Mulkere immediately went
down into the Cabbin with the Brig's Master in Order to
examine his Papers, that while the Masters were together in
the Cabbin, he the Deponent asked one of the Brig's Crew
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whence the said Brig came and received for Answer that
she came from the Mount that Captain Mulkere coming up
out of the Cabbin a few Minutes afterwards gave Keys to
the Deponent and ordered him and the other three to carry
them to any one of his People who were on Board the
Schooner and bid such Person take out of the little Trunk
which was in the Chest and send him the said Captain his
Commission, that the Deponent returning accordingly to the
Schooner banded up the Keys to one of the People that were
on the Deck but to which of them he does not remember,
communicating to said Person at the same Time Captain
Mulkere's Orders relative to the Commission that about a
Quarter of an Hour afterwards the Person to whom he had
delivered the Keys, returned to him with the Commission
rolled up in a Silk Handkerchief but whether the Keys were
also returned to him he does not remember, that as soon as
the Commission had been handed down to him he and his
three Comrades put off their Boat and rowed back to the Brig
which he imagines was at that Time about two hundred yards
from the Schooner, that Captain Mulkere as soon as the De-
ponent had delivered him the Commission went down again
with the Master of the Brig into her Cabbin where they two
remained about half an Hour, that then Captain Mulkere
coming up out of the Cabbin went into the Boat and returned
to his own Vessel, that immediately afterwards sent his
Boat back for the Master of the Brig ordering the Boat's
Crew to tell him that he must bring his Papers with him,
that the said Master came accordingly on Board the Schoon-
er and went into her Cabbin with Captain Mulkere and his
Mate Thomas Dale, that about Half an Hour afterwards
Captain Mulkere ordered two of his People to go on Board
the Brig and " fetch the three outlandish Men " that as soon
as the Boat got alongside of the Brig the Deponent saw
all the Brig's People jump into the Boat many of them, if
not all, taking their spare Cloaths with them and that they
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