Memorable Shipwrecks And Seafaring Adventures of the Nineteenth Century
Memorable Shipwrecks And Seafaring Adventures of the Nineteenth Century
J F John F Layson
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A new serpentine path was cut down to this inlet, communicating with our main position aloft. On Friday the 28th, the Malays were still employed on the wreck. A boat approached us in the forenoon ; but on the gig going out to meet it, they refused to correspond, and returned to their party. No relief having appeared from Batavia, and the period having elapsed at which, as we now thought, we had reason to expect it, measures were taken, by repairing the launch and constructing a fine raft, to gi...ve us additional powers of transporting ourselves from our present abode before our stock of provisions was entirely exhausted. On Saturday the 1st of March, the Malays acquired a great accession of strength by the arrival of fourteen other proas from the northward, probably of the old party, and the new-comers joined the others in breaking up the remains of the wreck. At daylight on Sunday the 2nd, a still greater force joined the despoilers during the night, when the pirates, leaving a number at work on the wreck, advanced witb twenty of their heaviest vessels towards our landing-place, fired one of their patereroes, beat their gongs, and otherwise making a hideous noise, anchored in a line about a cable's length from our cove.
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