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she came alongside. He had a brass five 

 or nine pounder amidships and muskets 

 and blunderbusses and plenty of them. 

 Z. G. LAMSON." 



The day after the encounter with the 

 piratical vessel, Captain Lamson fell in 

 with a Boston ship commanded by Cap- 

 tain Baker, and gave him an account of 

 the affair. "Boston Palladium," May 21, 

 1822 : " Captain Baker from Honduras 

 spoke May 4, Key Sal twenty leagues- 

 southeast, brig 'Belvidere,' Lamson, of 

 Beverly, from Port au Prince to New Or- 

 leans, and was supplied with a barrel of 

 flour. Captain Lamson communicated the 

 following information: thirty hours before 

 he had an action with a pirate of about 

 sixty tons, full of men. That two hours 

 before he was boarded by the United 

 States vessel 'Alligator,' who had two cap- 

 tured pirates in her company, and that 

 another vessel of war was then in pursuit of 

 a large schooner supposed to be a pirate, 

 she having three launches in tow. Captain 



