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Updated: May 11, 2025
What was the date of the letters from the 'Speedy Return' to which, long afterwards, Forbes, and he alone, referred? What was the date of the capture of the 'Speedy Return, at Maritan, in Madagascar? Without the dates we are no wiser. Now comes an incidental and subsidiary mystery.
On March 21, at Portsmouth, two other English mariners made affidavit that they had been of the crew of the 'Speedy Return; that she was captured by pirates, while Captain Drummond and Surgeon Wilkie were on shore, at Maritan in Madagascar; and that these two witnesses 'went on board a Moca ship called the "Defiance," escaped from her at the Mauritius, and returned to England in the 'Raper' galley.
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