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village, however, the captain did not proceed, fearing lest its in- 
habitants might be in some v^ay leagued with those of Quallah- 
Battoo. Po Adam's estate and fort, which he keeps well armed, 
lay nearly equidistant from these two places. It being now dark, 
and a keg of fresh water having been procured from the stream, it 
was determined to row to Muckie, another town of considerable 
importance in trade, and situated twenty-five miles further south. 
During this fatiguing pull, Po Adam took his turn at the oar with 
the rest. They arrived, early on the morning of the tenth of Feb- 
ruary, at Muckie, where they found the ship James Monroe, of 
New-York, brig Governor Endicott, of Salem, and brig Palmer, 
of Boston. 
After a short consultation, it was determined on the part of the 
captains of these vessels to get immediately under way, and pro- 
ceed to Quallah-Battoo, with the intention of retaking the Friend- 
ship. The cheerfulness and promptitude with which the com- 
manders, and officers, and crews espoused the cause of their coun- 
trymen, do them great honour ; for, in little more than an hour 
after Captain Endicott had communicated the distressing intelli- 
gence, the little fleet was under way, standing to the northward 
under a crowd of sail. 
By four o'clock on the same day, they gained an anchorage off 
Quallah-Battoo, though not sufficiently near to attempt a recap- 
ture. The Malays, in the meantime, had removed on shore every 
moveable article belonging to the vessel, including specie, besides 
several cases of opium, amounting, in all, to upwards of thirty 
thousand dollars. This was done on the night of the ninth; and^ 
on the morning of the tenth, they contrived to heave in the chain 
cable, and get the anchor up to the bows ; and the ship was drift- 
ing finely towards the beach, when the cable, not being stopped 
abaft the bitts, began suddenly to run out with great velocity ; but 
a bight having by accident been thrown forward of the windlass, 
a riding turn was the consequence, and the anchor, in its descent, 
was suddenly checked, about fifteen fathoms from the hawse. 
A squall soon after coming on, the vessel drifted obliquely towards 
the shore, and grounded upon a coral reef, near half a mile to the 
southward of the town. 
On the eleventh, having obtained a convenient anchorage, a 
message was sent by a friendly Malay, who came on board at 
