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Updated: June 12, 2025
Captain Haiselden had heard at Singapore that the Dutch sent out numerous men-of-war to cruise round Celebes and the Spice Islands for the purpose of putting down piracy, and as they would have heard of any vessel cast away near the places they were accustomed to visit, he was convinced that the "Amphion" must have been wrecked on some island shore to the northward.
As it is a long pull he also advises that the boats should leave the brig in the evening, so as to get to the place the next day." This advice exactly agreed with what the first mate thought best, and Captain Haiselden, whom he consulted, was of the same opinion. We accordingly, the wind favouring us, stood on and brought up just inside the mouth, which formed a beautiful harbour.
A visitor on board gave us dreadful accounts of the atrocities committed by the pirates in the seas through which we were to sail. "We will show them that they had better not attack us," observed Captain Haiselden, pointing to our guns. "The `Lily' is a match for all their fleets put together."
Kalong, on being asked, expressed his readiness, provided that we all went well-armed. "I'll join you," said Blyth; "I am sure Captain Haiselden will not object." The next point to be arranged was, in the event of our finding my father, where should we rejoin the brig.
Captain Haiselden talks of some day going to live on shore, when he will give up charge of the `Lily' to me, or I may obtain a larger craft and shall make enough for Grace, and you, and myself, I hope. At all events, my dear sister, you and the children must not starve, and we shall have Harry here making his fortune. So cheer up, Mary, and trust in God."
She was now rapidly regaining her perpendicular position, and in a few minutes would be on an even keel. The brig, after following the pirates for a short distance, had hove to Captain Haiselden had no fancy for running in among the rocks. Jack Radburn was soon on deck.
Captain Haiselden thanked his informant, and replied that we had already fallen in with such gentry, and knew how to deal with them. "But these are larger and more formidable craft than those by which you were before attacked. If they once get alongside your brig, you will find it a difficult matter to beat them off," was the reply.
Jack Radburn might have got command of a larger craft, but Captain Haiselden, who had nursed him through a fever caught on the coast of Africa, and whose life on another occasion he had saved, thus closely cementing their friendship, begged him to remain with him for yet another voyage, likely to be the most adventurous they had ever yet undertaken.
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