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stand out : these afterwards anchored, in at breek near the entrance of Tienpak harbour.
On a careful perusal of the orders the Chief officer of her I obtained, the information contained in the enclosed copy of his examination.
As his description correspondeds relative to Piracy, I did not conceive that there was evidence of the se I had observed on sufficient - me ins junks being pirates, ( although morally certain of the fact ), to justify making any attack upont attack upons theme, ovont provided Ecould hand moved the shise sufficiently near ; and their force AvaA too great to admit of a possibility of their being taken by the ship's boats. I accordingly judged it best to geb under weigh for the Taya Islands in further quest of information relative to the missing ships.
We weighed at 6 PM, and having passed Ty fung Island, came up with a junk which had been observed beating about the Bay in a lus Ruspicious manner all the afternom without anchoring: alongside, and from I hailed them to come ... with the appearance of the junks which to the Creek moving the mouth of the harbour, and, as Bears he stated his capability to point out his companion's junk, and the pirates which had captured her, I resolved to return with his vessel in tow to Tienpale reads, where AVC anchored at 8:00 PM.
Having made the determination to take this man, in, with a view discovering and view of - recapturing, the junk stated by him to have been seized by the pinates, at 6 o'clock this morning, I manned and armed the boats of this ships as specified in the accompanying list, and proceeded with them towards Tienpak.
On arrival off the entrance
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