text:  With his frigates now requiring repairs , Cooke withdraw half a league from <unk> and spent three days <unk> the masts and rigging of the ships . Then he sailed north , scuttling the two remaining gunboats as he did not believe they would survive the return journey to <unk> . Four days later , on 27 January the squadron halted at a village named " <unk> " in the north of the Sultanate of <unk> to collect fresh water . On the beach a boat party from <unk> was set upon by <unk> tribesmen . Two were killed and nine others taken captive and dragged into the forest before rescuers could arrive . Cooke complained to Sultan <unk> <unk> at <unk> <unk> and the captured sailors were eventually recovered , although not before <unk> and Fox had sailed for China to escort the merchant convoy back to India . 
  