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can vessels were lying. At one A. M. we reached Muckie, which Ues 
twenty-five miles distant from Quallah-Battoo, and found there ship James 
Monroe, Porter, of New-York ; brigs Governor Endicott, H. H. Jenks, of 
Salem, and Palmer, Powers, of Boston ; who determined, on hearing our 
misfortune, to proceed to Quallah-Battoo, and endeavour to recover the 
ship. They accordingly got under way, but, owing to the lightness of the 
wind, did not reach Quallah-Battoo in season to effect any thing that day ; 
but on the morning of the 9th, a Malay was sent on shore to demand the 
ship of the rajah, accompanied with the threat, that if the Malays did not 
immediately desert her, we should fire upon them and the town. The 
rajah, however, positively refused to give her up, and sent word we might 
take her if we could. The three vessels then commenced firing upon the 
ehip and the boats which were passing with plunder, and were answered 
by the forts on shore, the Malays also firing the ship's guns at us. In 
their attempts to get her on shore, she had become entangled among a 
large cluster of shoals, which rendered it extremely dangerous for either 
of the vessels to attempt to lay her alongside. 
The Malays, however, after blowing thernselves up with an open keg 
of powder," out of which they were loading the guns, soon ceased firing 
on board the ship ; when a boat from each vessel was discharged to board 
her, under cover of the guns from the vessels, and which we did without 
opposition; the Malays deserting her on the approach of the boats. We 
found her within pistol-shot of the shore ; and, on examination, ascertained 
that she was plundered of every thing valuable, and scarcely any thing but 
her pepper remaining. 
The appearance of the ship, at the time we boarded her, beggars all 
description : every part of her bore ample testimony of the scene of vio- 
lence and destruction with which she had been visited. We subsequently 
learned that the pepper-boat exchanged her crew of fishermen at the 
river's mouth for a set of opium-smokers, rendered desperate by their 
habits ; and to these men added also others of the same class, taken from 
the ferry-boat ; that when she came alongside, not one of them was recog- 
nised by the ship's company as having been off to her before. They 
were all, however, indiscriminately permitted to go on board ; and the 
• attack was commenced simultaneously at different parts of the ship by 
some concerted signal. Three or four men, with the first ofiicer, were 
instantly krised ; and the crew being taken by surprise, and unprepared, 
the ship fell an easy prey to them. 
Killed on board the Friendship, Mr. Charles Knight, chief officer ; John 
Davis and George Chester, seamen, wounded ; Charles Converse, seaman, 
badly ; John Mussey, seaman, and William Francis, steward. 
Captain Endicott informs us, in addition to the particulars before given, 
that just as he had pushed off from the shore at Quallah-Battoo, half the 
boat's length (after learning his ship had been attacked), Po Adam, 
formerly of Quallah-Battoo, but for the last two or three years a 
resident at Pulo Kio, a man of considerable property aiiid influence, 
sprang into the boat, bringing with him his sword and other arms. Cap- 
tain Endicott said to him, at the moment of his reaching the boat, " What, 
do you come too, Adam V — " Yes," was his reply ; " if they kill you, they 
must kill me first, captain." To this man. Captain Endicott and the 
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