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and unsuccessful pursuits of pirates of which I have required verbal reports only, have occurred within the period embraced.
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3: During which I have served as Senior Naval Officer here, numerous instances have come to my knowledge of the boldness of pirates in the immediate waters. The Cantonese are considered the most enterprising and cruel of the pirates in the Courts between this and the Chusan Islands, and the best informed regarding the Character and movements of European Vessels. European Vessels are seldom attacked by others than Cantonese, and there is reason to believe that it is with Cantonese and Hong Kong pirates alone that Europeans and Americans have associated as yet.
4° On one occasion a boat with a family belonging to Victoria was seized in this harbor and the father allowed to return from the pirates' haunt - about 14 miles from Hong Kong - to procure ransom for the captives, when the matter having been reported to me by the released man, a boat was sent during the night and captured 3 men, each of whom...
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