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44.
off Cape Kidnappers

baize sent down but no sooner had the man got hold of it than he began with amazing coolness to pack up both it & his furr jacket in a basket intirely deaf to the Captns Demands & the canoe immediately dropd astern  a small consultation now ensued among the boats after which they all returnd alonside & the fishermen again offerd fish to sale which was accepted & trade renewd   the little Tayeto Tupias boy was employd with several more to stand over the side & reach up what was bought  while he was doing this one of the men in a canoe seizd him & draggd him down & then held him in the fore part of the Canoe & three more in her paddled off as did all the other boats  the marines were in arms upon deck  they were orderd to fire into the Canoe which they did  at lengh one man dropd  the others on seeing this loosd the boy who immediately leapd into the water & swam towards the ship  the large boat on this returnd towards him but on some musquets & a great gun being fird at them left off the chase  our boat was lowerd down & took up the boy frighned enough but not at all hurt  what number were killd in the boats we cannot tell   probably not many as the people who fird at the boat in which the boy was
 

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