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Lieutenant James Hunt RN
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English: "Attack of two Lanoon Pirate Proas on the Proa 'Jolly Batchelor'. Belonging to Rajah Brooks of Sarawach and manned by the crew of HMS Dido off Datto Point on the coast of Borneo at 3 am May 1843 which ended in the blowing up of one Proa and the destruction of the crew of the other."
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