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the Brig's People then came on Board the Schooner, and
that soon afterwards Captain Mulkere ordered his Mate
and four Hands of which the Deponent was one to go on
Board the Brig to take Care of her which they accordingly
did and having got on Board fastened the Schooners-Boat
by a painter to the Brig's main Chains, that about half an
Hour afterwards the Boat broke loose whereupon the
Schooner bore away in Order to take it up, and soon after
the Brig's People had secured the Boat to the Schooner the
Deponent saw the Schooner's Pendant hawled down and a
Whiff hoisted at which Signal Captain Mulkere's Mate who
had Charge of the Vessel shortened Sail and then the
Schooner running up to the windward of the Brig came to
an Anchor, and the Brig's People jumping immediately into
the Boat returned on Board the Brig and took Possession
of her forbidding Captain Mulkere's Mate and four Men
to stir, threatning that if they did or attempted to get into
the Boat they would cut them down three of them having

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drawn Cutlasses in their Hands which they had brought
from the Schooner, but the Deponent did not see any other
Arms or Weapons among them, and the Deponent says
that neither he the Mate or any other of his Comrades who
had been sent by Captain Mulkere to take Charge of the
Brig nor either of the People who had been sent for the
three Outlandish Men carried any Cutlass or other Weapon
with them from the Schooner on Board the Brig the De-
ponent moreover saith that after the Brig's People had again
taken Possession of her one of the Brig's Crew called M^c-
Lachlan came into the Steerage to him the Deponent and
two of his Comrades and said that his Captain had ordered
him to speak to him the Deponent and his Comrades and to
tell them that if they would keep their own Council the
Captain would make each of them a Present of a Piece of
Money that about two o'Clock the next Morning some one
of the Brig's Crew called on the Deponent and his Com-
rades who were then asleep in the Steerage and said they
must turn out and get into their Boat, and upon their saying
that, that was not a Time of Night to be turned adrift in
an open Boat, the Mate of the Brig and M^oLachlan declared
that if they the Deponent and his Comrades did not imme-
diately get down into the Boat which was then along side
the Brig they would heave them into it Head over Heels
that thereupon the Schooners Mate and they thought proper
to descend into the Boat and put off, some of the Brig's
Crew having first handed down to them the three Cutlasses
abovementioned with some Bread Beef Pork and Water the
Deponent saith that he did not while he was standing on the