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said Brig whether or no he had his Papers from Mulkere, he
answered, no, he had not, and this Examinant demanding
them of Mulkere he answered he knew not where they were
and then ordered all the said Brig's Crew into the said
Schooner's Boat (except this Examinant's Captain the
aforesaid Carcaud), the said Carcaud then told this Exami-
nant he had seen the said Mulkere put the said Papers into
a small Trunk in the said Mulkere's Chest in the said
Schooner's Cabbin, and upon this Examinant asking of the
said Mulkere his the said Mulkere's Keys he readily gave
them to this Examinant, but the said Mulkere's Chest was not
locked tho' the Trunk within it was, and on receiving the
said Keys this Examinant went into the Schooner's Cabbin
and called to the said Captain Carcaud to come and observe
this Examinant over-hall the said Trunk, and the said Car-
caud coming and standing close by the said Cabbin Door
near which stood the said Chest, this Examinant over hailed
the Papers in the said Trunk the said Carcaud standing by
the Whole Time, and the said Mulkere also saw this Exami-
nant during the whole time, that this Examinants' over
hailing the said Papers was only by turning them over (with-
out looking into any of them) supposing that Captain Car-
caud might know them by their Outsides, but they were
not found there, but this Examinant saith that under the
said Papers in the said Trunk he observed many Dollars but
no Gold And this Examinant saith in Order to examine the
said Trunk he took it out of the said Chest then shut the said
Chest down and put the said Trunk (which felt heavy) upon
the Lid of the said Chest before this Examinant unlocked
the said Trunk to examine it, and this Examinant then re-
turned the said Trunk into the said Chest, and shutt down
the said Chest leaving the said Keys with the Trunk in the
said Chest, but this Examinant saith that he did not take any
papers out of the said Trunk Chest or Cabbin but left every
Thing therein as he found them, upon this Examinants'
coming out of the said Cabbin the said Mulkere hailed the
said Brig (then very near the said Schooner) ordering her
not to bring too, whereupon this Examinant took an Hand-
kerchief belonging to himself from about his own Middle,
and tying it across the said Mulkere's Mouth on the back
.Fart of his, thus gagged him in Order to prevent his giving
Orders to the said Brig, and thereby prevent this Examinant
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