as a prize but I do not consider she is likely to be condemned.
as
In afternoon I observed two piratical Canton Lorchers having good information from the fishermen also honest trading junks & proceeded into Dinghai Bay I succeeded in sinking one the other weighed auch tried to join two others further up the creek, but her foremast being shot away she did not succeed but stood out to sea on us as a opening fire she have round and got good start, after she returning shot an hour's chase for meinmest went over I then closed on shot her the side her firing grape
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and case into her for they still kept up a fire on us. With their gingalls and rifles. Isten sunk her by firing Moorson shell The determined and reckless they fought would have been other cause 26 creditable to any way twenty six having been killed five wounded and only four captured untouched who informed us of the where about of other similar vessels, and also that they had several thousand dollars captured from leading on board other junks. their Chinese man was not a
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