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PEDEO GIBERT AND OTHERS. 705

arrived in 33 deg. N. lat. and 94, 30, W. lon. she fell in with
a suspicious looking vessel from which she made many efforts,
‘but unsuccessfully, to escape. This vessel, a schooner, hav-
ing come up with the Mexican, fired a gun, and the captain
of the latter, seeing that the schooner was armed with one long
and two small guns, and that her decks were crowded with
men, felt himself obliged to submit, and accordingly hove to.
He was then hailed, and ordered to come on board the atrange
vessel, which mandate he obeyed in his own boat; but on
reaching the schooner, five men jumped into the boat and or-
dered it to be rowed back to the brig. On arriving on board
the brig, they directed the captain te accompany them into
the cabin, where, brandishing their knives, threatening and
beating him, they compelled him to acknowledge and give up
the money which waa in his possession. A communication
waa then made with their companions on board the schooner,
who sent a launch and carried away the treasure. The party
on board the Mexican then left, after confining the erew be-
jow, breaking the compasses, and destroying the rigging and
tackle. They also set fire to the camboose, in which they
placed a tub of combustibles, and lowered the mainsail in
such a way that it would speedily ignite. A short time after-
wards, however, the captain contrived to get upon deck, and
extinguished the fire before it had caught the mainsail, They
then repaired their damages as well as they were able, and
returned to Salem, where they arrived on the 2nd of October.
Information of what had taken place was immediately dis-
seminated throughout thia and other countries, and reached
the coast of Afriea, where Capt. Trotter, commanding the
British brig of war Curlew, was then eruising. Circum-
stances led that gentleman to believe that the schooner Pan-
da, then lying in the river Nazareth, was the veasel which
had captured the Mexican, He immediately, therefore, pro-
eeeded to take measures against her. These measures re-
sulted in the capture of the Panda, but the escape, for the
time, of her crew. No ship’s papers or log-book were found
on board of her, although diligently sought for; and, owing

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