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The recaptured men informed me that all the pirates of the fleet, a division of which had captured them, have European Muskets, and revolvers that the name of the Chief formerly a Hong Kong pirate is Now Wang Sing.
a short, dark, thin man about thirty years old, marked on the face by small-pox and by the effect of a ... that the junk which he generally cruises is a large and fast one, carrying 12 heavy guns and flying a red triangular flag at the stern, that all his junks wear triangular divisional flags, some blue with a red border.
on being asked about a staff at the stern, and that he and all his men wear red sashes. I may here observe that the captured man identified, wore a red sash, and that the other, who declared that he had himself been captured, did not. They also stated that in the North-east Monsoon this fleet cruises to the Northward of Hongkong as far as Swatow and Amoy, and in the present Monsoon, between Hongkong and Hainan.
that Now Wang Sing was concerned in the seizure, and murder of the Crew of the British Ship Parama...