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Lew was informed by his relations living near, that a week before we arrived 10 large M.C. boats had been about Meichen Loned, but that some of their friends having taken a large Loo. choo junk them fearing the advent of the Gunboat had run Louth. That about a mouth ago a foreign lorche on board with several Europeans has been captured about the Haitan tex.
clothes, fur jackets, opium pipes tay sex. found on board, the pirates must have been very successful of late, and, doubtless, a good amount of treasure was taken on shore by the Lampaus. Several mandarin hats with feathers were found, and among other things, a letter of introduction to the celebrated pirate as that they have formed a portion of the Imperial fleet. Straits, and every soul on board killed.
This was evidently the same Lorcha that I saw, and I suspect that she had been smuggling opium along the Coast. From the quantity of five Leaving Meichen Sound on the morning of the 2 out I with difficulty arrived at Lorchow you on the 25th I have the honor to request you will be pleased to call the favorable attention of the Commander