Captain Peabopy, master of the Ameri hip Antelope, appeared tu prosecute a jumper of his crew for aiding and abetting he desertion of a seaman named Rei:
jas Phill appeared, bei dissatisfied with hia life on the ship, ped over the side one night in January Inst in longitude 1: E. latitude 18.5 N., tabing with him a small plank for s raft Jaxtes Tomas the Antelope wai did not know anything about the disappearance vf Philips, whom he last saw on the night of his disappearance, stan on the main deck. That was about " qua ter to nine o'clock, On the muster of the watch witness missed a man and upon aske ug Where he was, was told that he had gone forward, but as he did not. muster, instituted, every part of the searched thoroughly, It was a movulight night and a man o of have fall bourd without bein noticed. Witness spoke to one of the men, named Edwards, who was lying in his told him that one of the men and he (witness) thought it go that a man should take ao little notice ubout the disnppearauce of a slip mate as Edwards acoined to do, Simpson afterwards told witness that there waa a
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