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Updated: May 13, 2025
"We didn't shout, but we told him that, to a man, we were ready to go wherever he thought fit to lead us. "`Then, said he, `we'll just walk into the Dutchmen's castles before they've time to rub their eyes. "Captain Kenah, with a party of us armed with pikes, on this at once advanced to the rear of the nearest battery.
The place we were to pull for was the east point of Banda. What a night it was blowing and raining like fury and dark as pitch! but that, in many respects, was all the better for us. Captains Cole and Kenah arrived first at the appointed spot in their gigs, and only by degrees did some of the other boats get up there it was so difficult to find our way.
Leaving a few men to take charge of the battery, Captain Kenah was pushing on to take possession of the next, when Captain Cole sent to say he had got hold of a guide, and was going to take Fort Belgica itself. "Away we went along a narrow winding path, towards the castle.
The castle of Belgica, the chief fort of Banda Neira, had been taken in an especially gallant manner the year before by Captain Cole, of the frigate "Caroline," and Captain Kenah, of the "Barracouta" sloop. Landing at night, during a violent storm, accompanied by Lieutenant Lyons and several other officers, they made their way to the rear of the citadel.
Overboard we all jumped, and soon had the boats afloat, and pulling on, we reached a snug little sandy cove, surrounded by trees or jungle. Here the captain mustered us, and found that he had only got about a hundred and forty seamen and marines, and forty red jackets, with Captain Kenah, five lieutenants, and some soldier officers.
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