An inspection of the ship, revealed that most of the shots had been directed at the bridge, one smashing the barometer, another the lamp and several hitting various parts of the wood-work and breaking a number of window panes. The pirates must have used powerful weapons as one shot pierced a wooden door, a window pane and finally lodged itself in the ceiling.
One of the shots also pierced one of the saloon port-holes on the main-deck and was stopped by the wall on the other end of the large room.
Captain Inch also told the reporter that of the six men that had been on the lighter, which, due to the snapping of the line by which it was pulled by the Alexandra, had been lost, one was killed whilst the other five arrived here yesterday aboard the Portugese s. Ave Maria, The lighter itself however, has not been recovered and enquiries made until a Jate hour last night, *o locate the five remaining men, proved fruitless.
The laodah of the Alexandra, questioned, merely smiled and said that he hoped that, if ever they were to bbe concerned in a piracy again, they would be as lucky as they were this time. "I don't know whether the captain told you," the Chinese seaman said, "but a bullet which smashed a star-board window pane, on the bridge, missed his head by two or three inches and I believe that he came the nearest to death I have ever seen." it was also learned that the compradore of the Alexandra, who feared that the pirates when boarding the ships yesterday morning, would to hand over the money that in custody, hid in the ward-captain's cabin and, SUNDAY,
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