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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., Old ships and ship-building days of Medford. (search)
hose stings had left evident traces of its virulence; their flesh wasted away, and even the very tones of their voices changed. They had been wandering about in the jungle without food ever since the ship was taken. Their account of the capture of the ship stated that when the pepper boat came alongside, in spite of several suspicious circumstances, they were allowed to come aboard, when at a signal they fell upon the crew of the vessel. Those who could swim jumped into the water and the rest who escaped death took to the rigging. Those in the water, after consulting together, swam about two miles down the coast, where they landed entirely naked. After wandering about in the jungle, as stated, they had been rescued by a friendly native. In something less than a year after this outrage the U. S. S. Potomac appeared off the port. The Malay forts were stormed after some desperate fighting and the town laid in ashes. The Palmer was lost at sea December, 1835. —Hall Gleason