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the
the importance
of securing some of
their notorious pirates / to whom
(to
me this
had already twice sent me
'I feel justified in then
year
you
won them and did so with two
rounds
of double
several of them
charge of the Hong Kong trader in the hold of which had been battened down, with
a
15-
5
quantity of powder round them,
proper crew who expressed much
her
firing
joy and
On the
grate by which
of them were killed and
wounded, and we
me
of whom was
informant
as
captured two men
recognized by the having thrown stink-
pot into his junk and afterwards
plundered
him and the rest of their
clothes; The other
• and,
as
was not identified,
I believed his assertion that
he had himself been captured in a wood boat a few days before, I set him at liberty at Macao. I then took
gratitude for
their
deliverance
gunboat leaving in sight they
were driven below, the pirates observing
that
if a
shell struck her they would
be blown up as well as
themselves. They
entreated me to land and liberate
their comrades who
were confined in a joss house and were
momentarily in
fear of being put to death. As they had previously told me that the villages were then filled with pirates
it
was
not without hesitation that
I acceded to this request, and taking