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with a cargo of Government rice, and had run ashore on a shoal
to the north of (Jerain, where she was deserted by her crew.
With characteristic energy Lieutenant Deane succeeded, after
six days' hard labour, in getting the ship off, and brought her
to Aniboyna. In Jtdy, 1800, he proceeded in the 'Swift,'
accompanied by the Hon. Company's brig 'Antelope,' and a
country ship, to carry live stock to the garrison at Banda, where
there was, at that lime, a great mortality for want of fresh pro-
visions. On the passage a heavy gale of wind came on, which
dismasted the 'Antelope,' and obliged her, and also the country-
ship, to bear away for Amboyna, but, although the ' Swift ' was
making four feet of water an hour, and it was with difficulty
that she could be kept free with two pumps. Lieutenant Deane,
knowing the distressed condition of the Island, proceeded at
great risk, and landed three months' fresh provisions, which
was the n)eans of saving the lives of many of the troops.
In August, 1800, Mr. Farquhar appointed him Master-Attend-
ant at Banda, but active service was more to his liking, and, in
the following year, he resigned the appointment, and joined the
' Swift,' then commanded by that brilliant seaman, (^aptain John
Hayes. As First-Lieutenant he served in the 'Swift' when
she was engaged against the batteries of Ternate within pistol
shot for two hours and a half, on the 11th and l(3th of May,
1801. When the ' Swift ' was off" the Island of Ternate, Colonel
Burr, commanding the troops, declared it impossible for him to
keep possession of Fort Kaio JMaru, unless some assistance was
rendered by the squadron, then under Captain Hayes, upon
which Lieutenant Deane volunteered and proceeded on shore with
twenty-five seamen, and kept possession of the fort two days
and two nights under a heavy fire from a hill battery. He also
participated in Captain Hayes' brilliant action with forty sail of
Magindanao pirates in August, when seventeen vessels were de-
stroyed. Lieutenant Deane commanded the 'Antelope' until April,
1803, when that ship proceeded to Bombay to refit. On leaving
Amboyna, Colonel J. Oliver, commanding the troops at the
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Moluccas, wrote as follows, under date 4th of April, 1803 : " I
beg leave to express to you my thanks for the zeal, alacrity,
and judgment which has at all times distinguished your conduct
while under my command. I earnestly hope that this public
testimony of m}^ approbation may be of use to you in future,
and I sincerely wish you health and success through life." At
Malacca, where the 'Antelope' touched on her way to Bombay,
Lieutenant Deane joined the 'Mornington ' as First-Lieutenant
and, in May, 1804, was appointed to command the 'Wasp'
schooner. In October following, at the particular request of
Mr. Farquhar, now Lieutenant-Grovernor of Prince of Wales'
Island, he was allowed by the Bombay Government to take
command of 'Les Freres Unis,' of sixteen guns, under the