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Updated: May 6, 2025
But we were still in imminent danger of being taken prisoners, and, as he afterwards told me, Mr Brooke was thinking seriously of sending a charge of small-shot scattering amongst the crowd, when two of our lads seized the sheet and began to try and hoist the matting-sail, and to my intense delight I saw it begin to go up as easily as could be.
"Give way, my lads," said the officer sternly; "let's try and save some of the others." "Ay, ay," cried the man who had shouted before. "These here arn't worth saving." The boat swept round in a curve, and we pulled off for another group, kneeling and crouching upon what seemed to be a yard and a mass of matting-sail. Mr Grey stood up. "Now, my lads," he shouted, "surrender."
Then he walked away among the houses, and one of our men pushed the boat off again, evidently to the intense wonder of the people, who stared hard to see a British sailor managing a native vessel; while two others, in a costume perfectly new to them, sat looking on. Then our men were packed out of sight, some in the little cabin, others hidden at the bottom of the boat, beneath a matting-sail.
The man began to protest volubly, but Ching rose up, and with a fierce look rustled his new coat and sat down again, with the result that the man loosened the rope which held his boat to the side, and the swift tide began to bear us away directly, the man hoisting up a small matting-sail and then meekly thrusting an oar over, with which to steer. "Why, what did you say to him, Ching?"
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