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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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The British ship Cato, commanded by Vice Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, wrecked on King's Island in the Maldives. The crew, except three survivors, was tied together and buried alive by natives, as reported in a letter from Bombay received in Kingston, Jamaica, on Sept. 16.
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Kingston. Sept. 16. The fate of his majesty's ship Cato, of 50 guns, has at length transpired. by means of a letter from a gentleman at Bombay, to his friend in this island, which contains, in short, the following account of that melancholy affair, gathered from the depositions of three persons who escaped the dreadful catastrophe, and got safe, suffering variety of misery, to the Portuguese settlement of Goa, where they were examined, with great solemnity, before the officers of a court of justice. "The Cato man of war, was wrecked on King's Island, one of the Maldives. Vice Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, the rest of the officers, and the whole of the crew, who went on shore from the shipwreck, excepting only the three deponents, were tied two and two together, by the inhuman natives, and thrown into a deep pit, in which they were buried alive."
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King's Island, Maldives
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whole crew except three survivors tied two and two together and buried alive by natives
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The Cato man of war was wrecked on King's Island, one of the Maldives. Vice Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, the rest of the officers, and the whole of the crew who went on shore from the shipwreck, excepting only the three deponents, were tied two and two together by the inhuman natives and thrown into a deep pit, in which they were buried alive. Account from depositions of three survivors examined in Goa.