Darkness crept over the ocean, my felond and I were silting in our cabin gating sausage rolls and cake, Sud. denly some one burt into the cabin Jand said "There's two Chinese on deck, fand they've got hold of Weller." (He one of the big boys), I wanted to {go out and see but Miss MacNair had [heard and she would not let us go out. Then we heard reports and shouting, a pirate care up the cor rider, looked at us but seeing we were only children he turned to steward and searched him. We were Joh praying hard, and, because of that, Ave men who came ~ip the corridor turned back without hurting us.
We spend a fearful night with six} in our cabin where two ought to be.
Waking up next morning, we found that the pirates were quiet, We were only allowed to leave our cabins Yor ticals, 3 timer & day, but T was at tone, the pirates threw it and jumped in, among the chief pirate; spotting men lent them a lifeboat, they got ook the chief officer, wireless oper: for, quartermaster and Chine sengers, on reaching land 'a hole in the boat and leaving the eight people to be fetched by, a ship's boat, They had painted two white bands} fon our black funnel so it resembled ut "uraMf eyot" and any ship neat enough would have seen something
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