One of my men went down in the night, and brought me news that the ship was gone.
As my messenger had told me that you had questioned him as to the other entrance to the creek, I felt sure that you had gone there; so I was not surprised when, just before daybreak, two guns were fired.

We saw the fight, the sinking of two of their vessels, and the attack by the water pirates, and by the men of the rajah and the chiefs with him, and I feared greatly that my friends would be overpowered.
"I sent one of my men down to the mouth of the creek, to tell you how much aid was wanted; but he saw the ship steaming up as he went, and so came back to me.

Then we heard the ship's great guns begin to fire, and soon all was quiet where the fight had been going on.

Then I saw the other four boats start.

One of them sank before she was out of sight, and I soon heard that your ship had sunk another, and that two had got away.