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of theirs- with the Baron and myself absent, but escaped injury. 
After our return, we begged the Dallams, our friends, to exchange boats for the night in order that Mrs. Dallam might be more comfortable, but they would not hear to it and eventually return with only paper doors in place of the wood ones which had burned, the hull being steel.  
During their sleep pirates entered their boat, still lashed to ours, and carried off their money, silver, and clothes- leaving only enough of the latter to dress Mrs. Dallam. The captain being equiped from my trunk after the robbery had been discovered. Ourselves and the crews of over twenty