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Patridge, as a young boy, was on board a vessel carrying opium along the coasts of China, when in 1842 she and another engaged in the same trade were wrecked on the island of Formosa, and both crews 175 Bengalis and 13 white men in all were captured by the natives and taken to the capital, Tai-Wan-Foo. The Bengalis were beheaded immediately.
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