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s factor Thomas Bright. Brooke reported having ordered the ship's valuables be stowed in the longboat but that the men had refused his orders and thrown them overboard, thus accounting for their absence. Bright's less improbable report was that Brooke had stowed them on the skiff and stolen them.
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