He gave information about the affair, and was the cause of a gun-boat, that was in these waters at the time, bein' sent off in chase o' the pirate junks.
"This man who swam ashore was a Lascar.

He said that the chief o' the pirates, who seemed to own both junks, was a big ferocious Malay with only one eye--he might have added with no heart at all, if what he said o' the scoundrel was true, for he behaved with horrible cruelty to the crew o' the barque.

After takin' all he wanted out of his prize he scuttled her, and then divided the people that were saved alive between the two junks.

There were several passengers in the vessel; among them a young man--a widower--with a little daughter, four year old or so.

He was bound for Calcutta.