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f the ship Boston and all but two of the crew were killed by the natives at Nootka sound. The vessel was afterwards accidentally burned. A few years later the captain, officers and many of the men of the ship Atahualpa were killed by the Indians at Millbank sound. Jas. G. Swan. Northwest Coast. Seldom, indeed, did a vessel from the United States complete her voyage in that ocean without losing some part of her crew by the treachery of those with whom they were dealing. Memoir of Mr. Greenhow to Congress. The dangers, also, from pirates on the China coast were great. On the evening of August 22, 1809, Capt. William Sturgis anchored in Macao roads. Early the next morning he sent a boat with his first officer and four seamen ashore for a pilot to take his ship up the river to Canton, leaving but ten men on board. Hardly had they started, than the vessel was furiously attacked by a fleet of twenty-one pirate junks manned by two thousand men and led by the admiral's junk its