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with a portion of his gunboats Seized ten of the pirates and this was Seilung.
очей- passed and other well. at his Known piratical Villages the inhabitants of which approach. fled
In the meantime two of the local Mandarins Visited on board the war Junk and informed the General that the pirates he was in search of had left the village"
On the morning of the 27th the General Asserted that during the night persons have come off from the shore and informed him that at now he would receive a reply to his demands. I then endeavoured to impress on him the necessity of landing in the event of his request not being complied with at the hour named him with our men, offering to accompany to which he immediately agreed.
At 2 P. M. no Answer having been received from the shore, I weighed in the 'Wood Cracker' (which draws less water than the 'Grasshopper') and having taken on board the General, two local Mandarins, the Captain of the Junk with some of her men and our own seamen, steamed inshore as close as the shoal water would allow
Here the General again expressed a wish to remain, until some information had been received from the shore, but having