disfreighting

Ceylon they proceed to Siam, and thence to Hong-Kong, where they drop anchor in the offing, and by a special custom the cargo is sold and paid for in sycee silver before disfreighting, and the bullion is in the safe of the huge smuggler, although the opium has not yet been removed.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various