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sure that almost the only chance of apprehending any of the piratical Villagers referred to in
which at first he expected ourselves, but
we should man eventurally, at 3. P. M., some of the crew of the Junk
and the your d on an immediate and orders depended sudden landing.
I through the Consular Interpreter expressed this opinion to the General when he informed me that in the first place he must Communicate with the Headmen of the village that if the guilty were given up the innocent should be spared, otherwise he would send in Braves to destroy the place. He wished me to deputated a book for the purpose, saying that the Junk had not one large enough, which was not the case.
I therefore lent him a boat in a red were put informer, having first been dressed in her having first been dressed jacket with a sword Encealed under his clothes, was sent alone to the Village with the letter which he delivered at the nearest house close to one of the Village gates.
In the course of conversation with the Interpreter, the General asked if I Ahmed not be afraid to land with smale a force when he was told that Lieutenant Walker in hot pursuit of the pirates (the remainder of they were now sent to whom have sent to apprehend) on their making to the shore landed