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was condemned to 10 years' penal servitude
Your Excellency may recollect that a pirate junk which had captured and burnt a European vessel close outside this harbor under circumstances of great atrocity, was recognized shortly afterwards cruizing among shipping at the anchorage, and that the circumstance having been reported to me by the master of the destroyed vessel - then in a Chow-boat under medical treatment for his wounds - she was seized and handed over to the police and hanged.
6. With reference to daring acts of piracy within the waters of this island, I would point your Excellency's attention to the case of the Danish vessel "Chico" here rendered, by which it will be seen that in January last a European vessel was plundered and burnt at one of the entrances of the harbor and that the master and Chief mate were murdered and barbarously mutilated, and that the crew were wounded who had been left below by the pirates in the belief that they were dead.