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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS.

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at the brig that Captain Gibert
‘waa angry and sent another man
into the maintop to keep a look-
out with me. Shortly after saw
2 sail, and sung out to the cap-
tain, who asked her where she
‘waa—I said astern of the Ameri-
ean brig, and ao near that I could
see her three masts, On the fore-
castle of the Ameriean brig, saw
one of the achooner’s men keep-
ing guard, with a handspike in
his hand. Captain sung out,
“Take them out of the foreeastle,
and shut them up in the cabin.”
The third mate had a sword, the
other men kaiveo—they chased
the brig’s erew into the cabin,
and shut them up under a pad-
lock. Heard it said afterwards
that a smoke was made to suffo-
cate them. After the hatches
were all shut, the schooner’s men
started from the brig for our
own vessel, carried the brig’s
boat with them, and senttled her.
The boxes taken from the brig
‘were marked with a letter—can-
not say whether it was a P or a
DB @ schooner went to
Prince’s Island, from which she
eame shortly afterwards in great
haste, and was rom on shore at
Cape Lopez, near the river Naza-
reth. Acted as the eaptain’s ser-
vant, and when the captain ar-
rived at Nazareth, I set the table
for him in # room above stairs.
There heard the captain and boat-
swain talking together. The for-
mer said be had been obliged to
fly from Prince's Teland in eon-
sequence of news of the Ameri-
ean brig affair having reached
that place, He had purchased
$250 worth of provisions, but had
come away without them, Tho
captain came from Prince's Is-
lands in February, and remained
at Nazareth four months, at the

expiration of whieh time the
English came up the river in
boats, As soon as they were
seen, the carpenter (Ruiz), went
into the eabin of the Panda, took
up the after scuttle, and put a
match to a keg or bag of gun-
powder, The crew then went on
abore, and the carpenter followed
goon after in a canoe, taking with
him the ship’s papers. They all
went to the barracks (huts where
they kept the slaves), The Eng-
lish took the schooner off ‘with
them to sea, but returned in fif-
teen days, when thé English com-
mander came on shore and de-
manded of the African king that
he should give up at least the
captain and carpenter of the
Panda, if none others of the
erew, The king, however, re-
fosed, and the English then be-
gan to fire upon the town from
the pivot gun of the Panda, This
gun was @ twelve or sixteen
pounder (brass), and she had be-
sides two small carronades, Dur-
ing the firing, the achooner took
fire. The English went away in
three days. After this, the money
taken from the Mexican was hid
iu a barrel on the beach, on the
right hand side—did not know,
at the time, whether all the money
was hidden, because an order
came from the captain to go into
the bush, for the English were
coming in their hoats—they after-
wards took the money up and
baried it again at Cape Lopez—
they went for it again in a few
days, by order of the captain—
five of them went, all now pres-
ent. I was one of the number,
I and Castillo dug up the money
and the others began to count it.
T told them they had no time to
count the money, to which they
replied that they hed the eap-

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