4.
the Honorable East India
Company's Steamer Auckland.
Mr. Caldwell was
directed
to proceed to Im-ti and to apprehend there Ho alipo
should he have returned-
not practicable
if this was not
he was to seize as hostages two of the elders of
of the Village one of them being the chief of the Ho-clan or family
to which Ho alipo belongs and to inform the villagers that these two
men would be detained
in
Houghong until the
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I in quest of
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was delivered up.
ce with Chinese
Long experience.
customs and
лие
only
was
& feelings.
convinced.
that this was the
mode
by which I
likely to obtain the rendition of the fugitive and the vital importance to this community
under
existing circumstances that the murder
au
of ar
English Master by a Chinese
domestic servant should
not go unpunished influenced
ced me in san
this man
in sanctioning
manner of proceeding
which indeed is the